Jilyara of Wilyabrup Heath Road Chardonnay 2023
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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A celebration of Margaret River Chardonnay at a fair price and it rocks! Impressive quality on show here. Sunny, sea spray aromas – so inviting – mix with ripe yellow peach, nectarine, grapefruit zest and mango skin. Fermentation in barrel and 10 months maturation in French puncheons and barriques brings some scintillating textural interplay between an almond creaminess and edgy acidity to the wine. So bright it shines on the palate in lemon sorbet, citrus and white peach with a flash of fruit tingly lift to the finish. Alive and zesty to the hilt.
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.
