Flametree Margaret River Chardonnay 2023
- 95
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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A textbook and downright exciting example of Margaret River Chardonnay. Brings the full personality of the region’s top white grape variety to the fore with its open, sunny disposition, citrus brightness and engaging textural appeal. Aromas of lemon zest, lime juice, preserved lemon, nectarine and almond meal. It’s one fully expressive Chardonnay to taste aided by a smooth mouthfeel and enhanced by lacy acidity. There’s an interesting, attractive spiciness, too, with cardamon and a touch of the exotic amid the celebration of all things citrus on the palate from lemon and grilled grapefruit to a touch of savoury preserved lemon. Lovely stuff. Will age well.
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.
