Little Giant Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2024
- 91
- $22
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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As ever, the Little Giant range is in what I think of as squat bots. They might not be traditional but they are rather cute and do just as good a job. Never let those receptacles put you off. Chardonnay from the Adelaide Hills here, from a range of clones, the team employ whole bunch pressing direct to oak for fermentation, followed by three months on lees and then a further six months in large format older French oak barrels. Straw with flecks of green hue, this is well structured, if inevitably youthful. There is a finely crafted framework of oak which supports the stone fruit, citrus, floral and ginger notes. A wine of medium length, fine balance, juicy acidity and a lingering finish, it is attractive drinking now and over the next three years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
