Curly Flat Macedon Ranges Chardonnay 2023
- 95
- $54
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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The producer lives up to its reputation as a quality Chardonnay maker with another cool climate lovely from a cool vintage. Youthful yellow with green tinges. The scent of stone fruits is quite intense with nectarine and white peach joined by melon and citrus with some added complex notes from almond meal, nougat. There is quite a luscious quality to this wine with a number of clones in play, each bringing their own qualities – clones are P58 (aka, the old Penfolds clone noted for its citrus) and Dijon clones V3 and V5. Generous citrus and stone fruit flavours come with depth and an added note of sea spray-saline, finishing with light spice and ginger notes. Shows good attention to detail.
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.
