Howard Park Jeté Grand Vintage 2019
- 94
- $58
- Drink by: 2024-2026
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Complex? You bet. Take a deep breath and enjoy that lovely lifted scent of honeysuckle, jasmine, white flowers, baked spiced apple, light strawberry overtones and grilled nuts. Time on lees, 52 months, has been a worthwhile investment, delivering a sparkling that is both textural and smooth running across the palate as well as clean and appley fresh. It’s a fine balance achieved here. Super fresh on the palate in bright, tingly lemon pastille notes with buttered toast and brioche dough. Impressive poise and length.
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.
