Howard Park Margaret River Miamup Chardonnay 2022
- 90
- $30
- Drink by: 2023-2027
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Honeysuckle, yellow peach, baked apple, almond bread, the aromas are warm and inviting. Warm is a common descriptor used in my tasting notes for this wine. The basis is in part ripe fruit with a lean towards peach and nectarine, but it also rests in the use of French oak. There’s a creamy, lanolin texture here which brings a pleasant roundness and softness to the wine and with it, depth of flavour. You might argue that it is at the cost of structure but, overall, this wine is about the now. I would enjoy it earlier rather than later for its celebration of stone fruits, gentle florals and smart, background barrel work.
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.
