Byron & Harold The Partners Chardonnay 2024
- 93
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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From a single site in the Frankland River region, 2766 bottles made. Very pale yellow in colour, there are lovely tropical aromas here with notes of passionfruit, mango, pineapple and also some citrus. The wine has energy and good focus with a long lingering finish. The integration of the oak is complete, the balance is impeccable and the wine should age well, continuing to give pleasure over the next four to seven 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.
