Kooyong Faultline Single Block Chardonnay 2022
- 95
- $75
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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Faultline, as the name suggests, is off a single .6ha block of deep clay soils bounded by a geological fault. Year after year, it brings a particular deep-veined concentration of flavour which is enhanced by the winemaker with oak, producing a degree more savouriness than that enjoyed by its fellow Kooyong Chardonnay siblings. It is quite the individual. Upfront citrus notes, pear, stone fruits, spice and honeysuckle. A textural mouthful, nutty and nougat with more vanillin oak on show against the fruit. Cool climate acidity enhanced by a cool year means there is plenty of life ahead. Asks for a food match and would reward accordingly.
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.
