Byron & Harold Gravity Black Label Chardonnay 2023
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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This has a slightly deeper straw colour than the White Label, although it is all a bit lineball. Here we have notes of spices, minerals, chalk and ginger, well supported by peaches, stonefruit and grapefruit. The oak integration is fresh but exemplary with good intensity, the texture here is a little creamier. Well structured, with length and focus, all is well balanced and the lingering finish appeals. Now for the next six to eight years, this is an impressive Chardonnay.
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.
