Mezzacorona Maso di Mezzo Chardonnay 2021
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2023-2029
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Chardonnay from the Trentino Alto Adige region in Italy, this is deep yellow in colour. Soft, refined and restrained, there are notes of hazelnuts, stonefruits, peaches and melon. A flick of oak is evident, but all is well integrated. Keenly balanced, there is also good energy here and elegance over a minerally backing with focus, direction and persistence. Like this a lot – enjoy over the next four to six 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.
