Kooyong Estate Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
- 94
- $55
- Drink by: 2025-2036
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Potential plus! In the rush for immediate drinking gratification, the potential for further ageing with Chardonnay is often overlooked. This is one wine that asks you to stop and consider what might be. The deep fruit concentration, the role of toasty oak and the still developing nature of the wine might be something you might wish to consider. A sheen of stylish toasty oak roams widely with vanilla pod, woody spices, stone fruits, melon and an attractive savoury note of preserved lemon, all dressed in super bright acidity. The first instinct is to consider more time in the bottle. The second instinct is to wonder just how long? How’s your patience level?
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.
