Austins Chardonnay 2024
- 92
- $55
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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The fruit here comes from the Moorabool Valley at Geelong. The wine is the result of a selection from the best barrels by the team, with just 8,000 bottles made. Maturation is in French oak, 25% new. A deep straw hue, the style is pleasingly ripe and generous with the aromas weaving through stonefruits, orange rind, a touch of beeswax, cashews and a note rather reminiscent of lemon cheesecake. Good intensity and impressive length, there is a fine line of acidity running the journey. The wine should drink impressively for the next six to eight years.
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.
