Liv Zak Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2022
- 90
- $38
- Drink by: 2023-2030
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A different personality to its premium release ’22 Chardonnay sibling. Expect a more open and sunny personality, and a wine immediately more approachable in its youth which, it must be said, is in keeping with consumer expectations of a sub-$40 Chardonnay. Fresh white peach and pear fruits, baked quince, some flinty minerally elements and handsome toasty oak aromas. A taut wine carrying impressive drive across the middle palate, its cool climate credentials on show, in league with crushed gravel notes, quince paste, grapefruit pith and spice. A solid reflection of site, vintage and varietal.
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.
