Corryton Burge The Patroness Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2022
- 90
- $45
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Plenty of bold, upfront personality here. Ten months maturation in French hogsheads provides a strong oak foundation upon which ripe fruit is enjoying a moment. Summer stone fruits, honeydew melon, citrus, woodsy spiced oak with some attractive crème fraiche and vanilla notes offer up a prominent and persuasive sweet fruited Barossan Chardonnay. Warm and textural across the middle palate it is very Barossa, very confident. . . in other words, a real crowd pleaser.
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.
