Highgate Barrel Selection Chardonnay 2023
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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From the Hunter Valley, this wine has experienced longer barrel ageing than the team usually provide. It basically means that if you are a lover of big, full-flavoured whites, with a noticeable touch of oak, this is for you. Deep gold in colour, this is a sun-infused, ripe Chardonnay with the nose exhibiting notes of peaches, apricot, some nutty notes and nectarines. There is definitely a degree of oak influence here. A supple and sleek texture with very good length, there is a lot to like. It should provide pleasure over the next four to five years.
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.
