Driftwood Wines Margaret River Single Site Chardonnay 2021
- 95
- $70
- Drink by: 2022-2033
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A top-class wine from one of Australia’s leading Chardonnay regions brimming with impressive fruit-acidity-French oak integration. It’s all here. Seamless and fragrant with delicate aromas aplenty: lemon, quince, white peach, vanilla pod. A picture of cool restraint on the palate. Brisk acidity is the driver of flavour here, pulsing across the tongue, dispensing summer stone fruits, grapefruit and green apple in the company of honeysuckle, spring-like aromatics. That quince-like bite on the finish brings a real mouth-watering kick to close the wine. Fab drinking now and for the next 10 years-plus.
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.
