La Kooki Boya Chardonnay 2021
- 95
- $65
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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The inimitable style of Margaret River and its number one white grape variety is right here. And, boy, does it sing. With two of the region’s top winemakers behind it, it shows real class, launching seamlessly into a Chardonnay of lifted aromas, concentrated fruit and textural allure. All manner of citrus – lemon, lime, grapefruit – join with summer stone fruits to ignite the aroma. The palate is a smooth and flavoursome mouthful of white peach and citrus flavours, with nougat and almond meal. Taut and brisk, it is starting to reveal a lovely background nuttiness and texture which allows the pristine fruit to really sing. Keeps quite a fast pace as it moves across the palate.
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.
