Cape Landing Blackwood Chardonnay 2022
- 92
- $60
- Drink by: 2023-2029
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One of those Chardonnays you just know is going to look even better down the track. If patience is not your thing, lots to love now, but if you hold off then any time over the next five to six years, you’ll have something a bit special. A shining lemon hue, at the moment, with notes of spices, cashews, bergamot, melon and stonefruit and notable oak integration. There is focus, length and balance here too, with good intensity never wavering. Impressive so do try and put at least a few bottles away. You will not regret it.
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.
