Cloudbreak Adelaide Hills Nouveau Chardonnay 2023
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2024-2031
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Adelaide Hills offers some cracking Chardonnay. This example is shining yellow, an elegant, leaner, lighter style with notes of lemon, white peaches, ginger and lemongrass. There is partial malolactic fermentation here, providing a slightly creamy note. There is juicy acidity and good focus, with pleasing length. Impressive and enjoyable stuff. Now and for the next four to seven 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.
