Credaro 1000 Crowns Chardonnay 2022
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- $80
- Drink by: 2023-2029
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It has taken just half a century for Margaret River Chardonnay to take its place among the very finest examples of the grape to be found anywhere. Here is yet more evidence why. This superb example hails from two vineyards, including the team’s Wilyabrup vineyard. Whole bunch pressing in small bunches, wild yeasts, lees stirring and eight months maturation in French barrels, 30% new. Bright yellow hue, this offers a lovely expressive nose. Tropicals, banana, pineapple, passionfruit and cashewy oak. The oak is still integrating and this wine will look even better in a year or two. At the moment, very much early days. A fine line of acidity with good bite, balance and length, this is a wine which will provide great pleasure for at least four to six years, most likely more.
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.
