Cape Mentelle Heritage Chardonnay 2024
- 95
- $150
- Drink by: 2025-2038
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Such a beautiful richness of Chardonnay, pure Margaret River! Honeysuckle, wildflowers, white peach, spiced pear, citrus and rockpool, sea spray aromas. Generous, almost voluptuous, to taste with impressive clarity and concentration of stone fruits, apple, citrus, nuts with liberal spice scattered across the palate. Nicely coherent oak-wise, harmonious. A sheer, clean, pristine acidity ties everything together firmly with some delightfully fresh crunchiness of acidity and tart grapefruit pith ‘bite’ that really cleans the palate towards the finish. Boasts real Margs presence in the glass.
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.
