Cape Mentelle Heritage Chardonnay 2023
- 94
- $150
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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Heritage is a reference to some of Cape Mentelle’s best Chardonnay blocks planted in the southern and cooler reaches of Margaret River. The 2023 Heritage is a long, linear, expression of the region’s number one white grape variety, a wine that is still very much in its infancy and one that will grow and mature beautifully with further ageing. Striking acidity underlines the wine, making it a keeper. White flowers gather on the aroma with sherbet-like citrus, apple and white nectarine. There’s a struck-flint complexity here, some preserved lemon savoury notes, hazelnut and dusty woody spices and oak still yet to fully integrate. Give it time and the rewards will be plentiful.
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.
