Cape Mentelle Sixteen Hectare Chardonnay 2024
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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A really impressive Margaret River Chardonnay, the colour of the wine is a lemon/yellow. On the nose, we have cashews and almonds, alongside an array of stone fruits with florals and citrus, all supported by a minerally backing. There is excellent length here, along with poise and intensity. The wine has impressive oak integration, juicy acidity and it offers a taut, pleasing structure. Love it. It should continue to drink beautifully over the next six to eight years.
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.
