Cape Mentelle Chardonnay 2021
- 91
- $60
- Drink by: 2023-2032
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Not your usual powerhouse of a Chardonnay, but rather subtle and reserved at this early stage. Perhaps it’s a feature of the year which saw significant rain events during February in the lead up to vintage. Who knows? Perhaps it’s the vineyard sourcing. Whatever the reason, the usual plushness is replaced by a tight, well-structured Chardonnay driven in large part by bracing acidity. Layered in between are citrus, white peach and pear purity of fruit expression with grapefruit pithiness. Remains tightly coiled so needs a little more time.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
