Brown Brothers Patricia Tasmanian Chardonnay 2020
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- $48
- Drink by: 2022-2030
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Patricia chardonnay now belongs firmly in Tasmania. The last few releases have seen grape sourcing heading south to Brown Brothers’ Hazards and Kayena vineyards, and the results have brought a superfine purity of flavour, not to mention, a terrific energy from cool climate acidity. The 2020 release is all about the fruit for me. Complex aromas of white nectarine, peach skin, lemon and lime with almond meal and sea spray/rockpool notes. Riveting. Quite plush, almost luxurious, to taste with a lemon buttery-ness, nougat and almond mealiness that is kept in check nicely, firmly, by brisk acidity. It becomes tightly focused and trim to close. Oak is similarly well-managed.
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.
