Jean Loron Jean Chardonnay 2023
- 90
- $30
- Drink by: 2024-2028
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From Chardonnay vineyards, found at quite an elevated altitude, grown on the stony hillsides in the south of France, this is a pleasing variation on the theme. The colour here is a deep yellow. The wine is fresh youthful and quite an easy drinking style. There are notes of fresh herbs, florals and citrus, a touch of apricot and other stone fruits. An easy drinking wine of medium length for enjoying over the next three to four years.
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.
