Byron & Harold Rags to Riches Chardonnay 2025
- 93
- $32
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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The team offer a range of Chardonnays from the Margaret River region throughout their portfolio. This is definitely good value and, although still very young, you will not go wrong if you are looking for a Chardy of pleasure and poise. There is a great deal to like here. The colour is a deep yellow and the texture supple and seductive. The nose exhibits notes of deftly handled oak, spices, lemon curd, stone fruits and apricot. This is finely balanced with very good length and is absolutely delicious. Enjoy it over the next six to eight years.
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.
