Carlei Green Vineyards Cuvée Stephen Thomson Chardonnay 2018
- 88
- $59
- Drink by: 2022-2025
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Less of the Yarra Valley’s pristine and pure chardonnay fruit – although there are hints of it – and more of a wild, spice-infused trip mixing ripeness of fruit with some equally generous oak treatment. Bottle age is also starting to make itself known. This is not a shy wine by any imagining. Take some time to breathe in aromas laced in nectarine, peach, citrus, fig, lanolin and toast. Quite autumnal: less sunny and bright and more laid back and reflective. The role of acidity is there as a tangy adjunct, underlying the layers of fruit, bottle-developed fig and honey and warm oaky toastiness. And spice, there’s spice aplenty in tarragon and thyme.
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.
