Curly Flat Chardonnay 2025

A stylish, complex Chardonnay for this well-known Macedon Ranges winery reflecting a vintage that by all accounts escaped major weather disruptions and was warm and even. Offers texture and richness throughout starting with a bouquet of toast, cedar, nectarine, white peach, grapefruit and almond cream with baked bread verging on creme brûlée notes. Oak isn’t shy and the fruit is up to the task. Savoury almond creamy, buttery lemon curd joins with cedar overtones on the palate and baked quince, lemon peel and citrus. There’s a tart, citrus peel like quality in play here, and an acidity that is brisk and mineral- edged. A super long, lip-smacking finish seals what is a wine with an equally long future ahead.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic