Knee Deep Third Rule Chardonnay 2023
- 94
- $49
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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The estate’s prestige Chardonnay is an absolute cracker, even for Margaret River. The fruit, after overnight settling, was racked to French oak for fermentation and subsequently nine months maturation. Just 240 dozen made. Lemon/straw hue, the nose reveals notes of peaches, florals, nuts, a touch of lemon and stone fruit. This is a refined style, with juicy acidity and very good length. Some early complexity is already evident and can be expected to build over time. A wine of balance, the intensity here never wavers. This will drink beautifully for the next six to eight years. A class effort with so much to like.
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.
