Cape Landing Reserve Chardonnay 2022
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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The team like to describe their Chardonnay as the equivalent of an artist’s palette, thanks to an array of different clones, including the famous Gingin. It certainly all contributes to the complexity. They also have a deft hand with the oak, a light touch simply to enhance the structure and add to the overall impression. At this stage, integration is proceeding, though you have to look for it. A pale lemon hue here, this is both youthful and powerful. We have hints of crème brulee, stonefruits and tropicals, with peaches and mango to the fore supported by crunchy acidity with good focus and length. Enjoy over the rest of this decade and if you have the chance, give the wine an hour’s decant – it is not only red wines which can benefit from the practice.
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.
