Holm Oak Chardonnay 2023
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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The fruit for this fine Tasmanian Chardonnay was sourced from two discrete blocks (three different clones) and gently pressed, before racking to French oak barrels, 30% new and the remainder from one to four years in age. A full natural fermentation with half the wine then going through malo. Nine months maturation. The colour here is a lovely gleaming pale gold. The nose gives us aromas of stonefruit, especially peaches, spices and a hint of limes with a gentle and well-integrated note of oak. The structure provides elegance, yet underlying richness, and decent length with underlying bright acidity. A youthful style, linear and lingering. Enjoy for the next four to eight 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.
