Cape Mentelle Icon Chardonnay 2021
- 91
- $150
- Drink by: 2023-2030
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The new HH Icon series highlights the best wines from any particular vintage, from a selection of individual barrels. The ’21 vintage has been recognised as a difficult one, wet and cool. The conditions are reflected in a more considered wine, fine-edged and restrained. Ripe lemon and white stone fruits with bosc pear bring cool summery aromas and flavours. Clean fruit to the fore, capturing an attractive purity. The palate arrives with plenty of verve and energy. Matured in French oak for 10 months, it brings with it some impressive length with a gentle nutty feature before finishing with a chalky, pithiness.
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.
