Journey Chardonnay 2024
- 94
- $55
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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The Yarra Valley has long provided some of the finest Chardonnays made in this country and this recent release, young though it may be, will do nothing to alter that view. A seriously impressive Chardy with an exciting future and more than fairly priced. A shimmering pale lemon, this is an intense and yet elegant style. The nose gives us aromas reminiscent of lemon sponge cake with white peaches, jasmine flowers and citrus, notably lemon and grapefruit. Oak makes almost no appearance at all here, just a flicker, and the wine is finely balanced with a subtle line of acidity. A concentrated Chardy but, notwithstanding that, it is just dancing. Probably obvious that I like this a lot. Enjoy for the next three to six 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.
