Cape Mentelle Heritage Chardonnay 2024
- 95
- $150
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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The team’s prestige Chardonnay, this is always one of the gems from Margaret River. Two vineyards provide the fruit and there is a natural fermentation in French oak, around a third new, followed by ten months maturation. Pale lemon in colour, this is fresh and youthful, bright and focused, and tightly poised. The nose exhibits notes of grapefruit, stone fruits, florals, white peaches, jasmine, ginger and lemongrass. The oak integration is immaculate. There is attractive citrussy acidity and a really good intensity which runs the full length of the wine. Enjoy this over the next six to ten years. A superb Margaret River Chardonnay.
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.
