Five Vineyard Reserve Chardonnay 2024
- 93
- $58
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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A step up here, part of the oak regime includes new French barrels. Again, the fruit is sourced from a single vineyard. The final wine is a barrel selection. Yellow, slightly pineapple hue, the nose gives us notes of nutmeg, stone fruits, white jasmine, apricot kernels, cashews, rockmelon and spicy touches. This is intense but well balanced with good concentration throughout. A seductive texture, there is impressive length to enjoy this over the next eight years, possibly longer from good cellars. Lots to like here.
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.
