Artis Wines Jacopin Chardonnay 2021
- 90
- $26
- Drink by: 2022-2024
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Andrew Miller has named this wine as a tribute to the mentor who helped him understand blending – Guy Jacopin from Champagne. Andrew spoke no French and Guy no English so that must have been fun, but they managed. This wine is a blend from the Scotts Creek vineyard in the Riverland and the Woodlands Ridge vineyard in the Adelaide Hills. Each provides different characters to benefit the final wine. It is not only vineyards which are blended. There is also 8% Grüner Veltliner included, which contributes to the texture.
A pale lemon in colour, there are lovely aromatics here. A well-constructed Chardy, impressive for such a young example, but as we keep saying, 2021 is a cracking vintage. Some attractive peach and melon notes plus a nice line, but the texture really does excite – sensuous and supple. A mid-length style with a hint of bitter almonds on the finish. Drink now and for the next year or two.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
