Harewood Estate Chardonnay 2019
- 90
- $30
- Drink by: 2021 - 2024
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No shrinking violet, the time this chardonnay has spent in French oak is still more than evident. This is thoroughly enjoyable, but it is still short of its peak – there is better to come as the oak is still integrating. There are guava notes and even some delicatessen aromas to be found with spices with what is quite a powerful style. A really appealing slippery texture too, the wine is still coming together and will be better in the next 1 to 3 years, which makes $30 a bargain.
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.
