Kooyong Single Block Farrago Chardonnay 2024
- 95
- $85
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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Maybe it’s the high percentage of ironstone in the soil of the Farrago block, but there is something quite mineral, effortlessly bright and sunny about this wine. Brings attractive Peninsula Chardonnay qualities to bear – ripe stone fruits, citrus, lime, spring flowers and white florals to the aroma intertwined with baked bread, biscuit scents, almond meal and nutty hazelnut. That lovely nuttiness continues on the palate leading into layers of white peach, nectarine intensity with a lively citrus freshness and some deeper leesy, bready notes with biscotti. Beautifully composed, compact and assured and so fresh and summery with a lively acidity in constant play.
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.
