Cloudbreak Adelaide Hills Limited Release Chardonnay 2022
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Love the stumpy bottles. Surely they’ll catch on, at least to an extent. The wine, from the Adelaide Hills, is fully barrel fermented with partial malolactic fermentation, producing just 1,800 bottles. Deep yellow, the nose gives us nuts and honeycomb with peaches and mandarin notes. Good concentration and a line of acidity, the wine is of medium length. An intriguing style for drinking over the next five to six 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.
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