Leeuwin Estate Prelude Margaret River Chardonnay 2023
- 93
- $44
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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The pedigree of Margaret River Chardonnay shows through in the quality of fruit. It moves clean and fast, almost in a hurry to reveal its bounty of clean, pure lemon and grapefruit with glimpses of white peach, lemon balm and almond meal. It’s busy and citrus-intense against a background of gentle texture. The oak spice and creaminess noted in its more expensive Art Series sibling is turned down here in order to allow for an earlier, fruit-led drinking window.
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.
