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Coulter Wines Perihelion Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2023

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The aim here is very much to follow sound ecological practices and focus on sustainability, both in the vineyard and the winery. Bottles are lightweight – the days of the monstrously heavy bottle are coming to an end – and the labels 100% recycled sugar cane whilst capsules and cartons use 40% recycled material. This fine Adelaide Hills Chardonnay is my pick of the range. A pale lemon hue, it is tight, clean and focused. Well-crafted and linear in style, it sits at the leaner and more elegant end of the spectrum with notes of citrus and stonefruit and spices. The wine is fresh and bright with excellent length, and will surely provide attractive drinking over the next five years.

Ken Gargett

Contributor at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic