Moss Brothers Moses Rock Chardonnay 2022
- 90
- $32
- Drink by: 2022-2024
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Anyone noticed how that ridiculous ABC (‘anything but Chardy’) crowd has gone very quiet in the past couple of years? Is it any real surprise when top value, cracking wines like this Margaret River beauty are so readily available? The grapes were crushed and pressed to tank for cold settling. Racked with light lees, fermented with cultured yeast, the fermentation was divided between tanks and French oak before partial malo and then eight months maturation on lees.
Pale yellow in colour, we have notes of spices, lemons, melons and citrus. Fresh acidity here, a fine line driving the wine through to a decently long finish. Flavour and focus, this is a well above average Chardy, drinking beautifully now, but which will continue to do so over at least the next year or two. A touch of oak, but all well integrated. The team recommend it being served with “citrus roasted chicken with preserved lemon and broccoli slaw”. Who even knew there was such a thing as ‘broccoli slaw’, and why would you want to eat it? But citrus roasted chicken sounds perfect.
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.
