Heroes Otway Hinterland Chardonnay 2024
- 92
- $65
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Quite a shy perfume to start with delicate green pear, pickled herbs and lemon sitting coy in the glass. It’s quite tightly wound at this stage, but it does unfurl somewhat with air to show some citrus blossom lift and just ripe white peach along with a delicate glimmer of lees-derived sourdough. The palate has a lovely pillowy texture, though the fruit is still quite coiled within – white peach, white grapefruit and lemon juice and cashew cream sit above fine cedar before an assertively taut citrusy acid line wraps around it all like a corset, pulling it linear and long to a citrus-laden finish of good length. The bones are there, but this is too tightly wound for now and needs time to flesh out in bottle.
Tom Kline is a wine writer, reviewer, presenter, and educator based in Victoria, Australia. He is the Australian correspondent for the internationally respected publications Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy and Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux, where he highlights the top tier of Australian wine for a global audience. Tom also writes for leading outlets including Decanter (UK), Wine Spectator (US), and Halliday Magazine, among others. An experienced wine show judge and WSET educator, he has authored several consumer-focused wine courses aimed at making wine more accessible and engaging. In 2023, Tom was awarded Best Published Feature Article or Wine Column at the prestigious Wine Communicator Awards, presented by Wine Communicators of Australia.
