Gaffy & Neal Merricks North Mornington Peninsula Chardonnay 2021
- 95
- $70
- Drink by: 2022-2031
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Merricks North offers a look at the other side of the Gaffy & Neal Chardonnay coin with obvious clean cut and thrust, not to mention purity and precision. Structure is keen, offering the background to bright green apple, citrus, white peach, nectarine, mango skin, almond meal and a splash of kaffir lime spiciness. The defining personality is one of mouth-wateringly good drinking now, but with so much more to offer given time. That delightful acid line is the key. Its enduring persistence elevates the fruit while providing some serious zip and tang. The oak is just so, adding to what is some serious class. It’s quite the charmer.
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.
