Hutton Reserve Chardonnay 2022
- 96
- $100
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Lemon meringue pie, Meyer lemon and golden baked apples. School toffees, vanilla bean ice cream and gardenia blooms. You’ll also find the subtle elegance of white peaches, elderflower and unwashed pine wood. A salt spray salinity with electric acidity that draws out the flavour length of the wine. It’s nervy but still fleshy and giving. Crushed almonds and shaved ginger. A joy of a wine that brings together perfectly picked Chardonnay fruit with deftly handled oak. It’s drinking well now but will go the distance, say 4-6 years further with careful cellaring. A wine that can definitely be drunk on its own but also beautiful with potato gratin or a creamy based pasta.
Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.
