Howard Park Allingham Chardonnay 2024
- 96
- $105
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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Earns a place at Margaret River’s Chardonnay top table such is the complexity and utterly undeniable beauty it brings to the glass. Offers a sunny, sea spray, beachy scent – textbook Margs gin gin clone – entwined with ripe stone fruits, just-cut white peach, citrus, biscuit spice, nougat and grilled cashew. The palate is brightly lit in summery fruits and then builds in depth and concentration and keeps building, introducing nutty, nougat notes with vanillin oak – so smart -in play. Runs smoothly, runs long, well-structured with acidity kicking in through the finish, clean and efficient. Lots to look forward to as it progresses over the years.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
