Driftwood Artifacts Chardonnay 2024
- 92
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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An excellent Margaret River Chardonnay, the wine spent time maturing in top-notch French oak. The colour of this fresh and youthful Chardy is a pale yellow with green flecks. There is elegance here, with serious intensity and focus. The flavours weave through stone fruits, florals, citrus, most notably bright grapefruit notes, spices and nutmeg. The flavours here are slightly more forward than some at this stage but in time, one expects this to evolve and expand. The oak is well in the process of integration. A wine of medium length, with a seductive texture and citrussy acidity, which will provide pleasure for at least the next three to five years.
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.
