Charles Reuben Chardonnay 2025
- 92
- $70
- Drink by: 2026-2035
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Offers a different look at Chardonnay, one that is a little riper, a tad more sweet fruited with stone fruits in their happy place – out front and looking smart. Aromas bright in lemon, lime zest, nectarine, peach, apple with hints of lemongrass. Tassie acidity is juicy and crisp, setting the scene for a nicely complex palate in stone fruits, pear and citrus, pear skin and biscuity spices. A lemon pastille sweetness is the only hint of a touch of residual sugar (3g/L) which winemaker, Nick Glaetzer, has introduced as yet another layer of interest, cohesion and depth along with light toasty oak. Brings that Coal River Valley fresh, zippy-ness once again to Chardonnay. Equally persuasive is the leesy creaminess that runs the length of the wine.
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.
