B&H Rags to Riches Margaret River Chardonnay 2024
- 91
- $32
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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The fermentation here takes place in a mix of stainless steel and French oak barriques, before the wine undergoes six months maturation. The wine exhibits a near transparent lemon hue, while the nose is full of peaches and gentle floral characters. Still very young, it will surely be better in twelve months and then drink well for the following three to five years. The nose has a touch of spiciness, but it is the stone fruit and grapefruit characters which are to the fore at the moment, with a touch of vanillin oak that is integrating well. The wine is fresh, neatly balanced and offers some real length. It would work wonderfully well with a plate of freshly grilled fish.
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.
