Bethany Wines Blue Quarry Barrel Ferment Chardonnay 2023
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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A barrel fermented Chardonnay in the richer, mouth-filling style and it does carry it well. Yellow peach, ripe melon, quince paste, citrus, almond meal, almond biscotti. Palate is well composed and smoothly textured with good balance achieved between ripe fruit, vanillin oak and some lively acidity. Love the finish here, it’s perfectly sunny and uplifted, taking the wine with it. The finish lingers. Should live well should you choose to put some years on it, otherwise, I would be enjoying its charms right now.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
