Coldstream Hills Reserve Chardonnay 2024
- 95
- $59.99
- Drink by: 2025-2036
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Quiet and, yes, nicely reserved in the glass. A restrained introduction in scents of citrus blossom, white peach, melon skin and vanillin spice. Opens up a little more on the palate but, really, it is built for time not for speed. It almost demands a little more cellaring to release the budding citrus, stone fruits, grapefruit pith, orange zest notes and touch of kaffir lime which are kept taut and remain firmly in place. Offers layers of smooth, creamy yet essentially restrained chardonnay fruits. Bright acid all the way.
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.
