Knee Deep Birdhouse Chardonnay 2022
- 91
- $39
- Drink by: 2024-2027
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Margaret River has proven itself ground zero for great Aussie Chardonnay, both pointy end and top value examples. This excellent offering spent time in French oak barrels – nine months with 12% of them new – and lees stirring. Here we have a glowing pale lemon/yellow hue, with notes of peaches and ginger, melons, spices and stonefruit. There is good intensity throughout, yet the palate remains alluringly soft and appealingly textural. We see more and more stonefruit emerging along the length of the palate. Now for three 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.
