Gralyn Estate Wildberry Springs Reserve Chardonnay 2017
- 93
- $75
- Drink by: 2021 - 2027
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Straw green in colour and makes an impact from the outset. Pure and juicy grapefruit, white peach, citrus with a warm, almond meal cosiness. Unless the temperature is in the high 30s, don’t be tempted to chill the marrow out of this lovely chardonnay. Should you venture down that path you will be rewarded with an increased appreciation of acidity over fruit. This wine is built on a foundation of racy acidity, attractively so, but lowering the temperature it is served at would do it a disservice. Let the nectarine, white peach, grapefruit pith and mealy, wood smoke shine through.
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.
