Main Ridge Estate Old Vine Chardonnay 2025
- 96
- $100
- Drink by: 2026-2042
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Old vine complexity and youthful energy join forces to present one heck of a special Chardonnay. There’s that gorgeous aromatic lift combined with a deep concentration of fruit that pulses with life. Immediately engages in aromas of white peach, nectarine, Meyer lemon, quince, biscuit and hints of honeysuckle. In youth, it is mineral bright and lively with a complex weave of ripe stone fruit, citrus, gentle almond biscuity notes and mealy warmth, layered and boasting the impeccable balance of a tightrope walker. Fruit is sourced off the original plantings of Chardonnay at Main Ridge back in 1980. The rewards are many with this kind of quality viticulture and winemaking.
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.
