Longview Macclesfield Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2022
- 94
- $45
- Drink by: 2023-2031
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This is a cracking Adelaide Hills Chardonnay, from the Macclesfield sub-region, from a very fine year. Sourced from high altitude vineyards which are home to a mix of clones, the fruit is whole bunch pressed into French oak puncheons – 30% new, 30% second use and the rest third use. Barrel fermentation was over 20 days with partial malo. Maturation was a total of nine months. Lemon/yellow in colour. This is a finely constructed Chardonnay with impressive length. Spices, lemons, a very gentle hint of cashew, touches of ginger and river stones. The palate moves to cumquats and there is a lingering whiff of vanilla. It just seems to keep getting better and better. Poised, balanced and with very good intensity, there really is serious length here and it should drink beautifully over the next four to eight 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.
