Brown Brothers Patricia Chardonnay 2022
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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The citrus-zingy characters of the Apple Isle-think Tahitian limes, Meyer lemons, kumquats, mandarins, and pink grapefruits-all squeezed on top of dollop cream, vanilla pods, toasted hazelnuts and grilled Brazilian nuts. The palate equally possesses all the freshness of Tamar Valley, hugged by the power of the full barrel fermentation and the added spiciness from both the whole bunches and oak—that kind of apple and cinnamon tart feeling, if you know what I mean. Extremely fine on the back of the palate, it could have tripped on the winemaking and ruinously rolled down the hill. Instead, it is composedly and graciously walking away on Louboutin high heels.
Lisa Cardelli is an Italian-born wine professional who has been based in Melbourne since 2010. She worked as a sommelier in some of the city’s leading fine-dining restaurants for over ten years before leaving hospitality to become a wine sales representative. Lisa is now a journalist for Il Globo, the newspaper for Italians in Australia and around the world, where she also curates her own wine column. She continues to write about wine for both local and international publications and is on track to become one of the few prolific bilingual wine writers in Australia. A certified WSET Educator, she teaches at various venues across Melbourne. She also judges at local wine shows and for the prestigious Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards. Lisa was the recipient of the 2022 Wine Communicators of Australia award for Best Published Feature Article, a finalist for the same award in 2024, the recipient of the 2022 Sydney Royal Wine Professional Development Scholarship sponsored by the Len Evans Foundation, and one of twelve carefully selected Len Evans Scholars in 2024.
