Bec Hardy Garden Series Chardonnay 2025
- 92
- $30
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From the family’s lower Tintara vineyard on Kays Road, McLaren Vale, one of the region’s first generation vineyards planted by Thomas Hardy in the 1880s. Chardonnay is a more recent resident here, and given a mighty opportunity to express its ripe fruit characters, peach, honeydew melon and pineapple all up for it in the palate, the nasals more demure. It’s been neatly seasoned in older oak for a subtle spicing, which adds an extra element to all that ripe fruit, the gift here being the wine remains bright and fresh and perfectly suited to an afternoon picnic under the trees with a platter of cheeses.
Tony is best known for his 10 years as News Corp’s National Wine Writer, with weekly columns in major metropolitan mastheads throughout Australia including The Adelaide Advertiser, The Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Melbourne Herald Sun. He continues to write feature articles and columns for all the major Australian wine media publications. Tony has also worked as a restaurant reviewer, section editor, book editor, digital content provider, journalism teacher and was named Wine Communicators of Australia 2018 Legend of the Vine (SA). Find out more about Tony at tonylove.com.au
