Holm Oak The Protégé Chardonnay 2025
- 92
- $32
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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This is the first Protégé Chardonnay made by the team since 2022. It is an unwooded style of Chardonnay, which is fermented in stainless steel. Pale lemon in colour, this is a refreshing and pleasing style. The nose reveals notes of stone fruits, melon, florals, hazelnuts and citrus. There is tight, bright acidity and very good length here. The finish lingers attractively and this will drink well over the next five years. Good value.
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.
