Château Tanunda Eden Valley Chardonnay 2023
- 91
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Chock full of flavour that transcends the usual, more fine-featured Eden Valley Chardonnays. In many ways it is riper and richer than what you might expect, with a good splash of toasty oak and an almost savoury yeastiness complimenting warm white peach, citrus, baked quince, nougat and buttery flavours. Barrel fermentation and eight months maturation in new and seasoned French oak makes their mark, combining the subtlety of cool climate citrus and stone fruit with some added oak-complemented oomph. Attractive florals bring lifted notes. Lacy acidity keeps everything in place.
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.
