Mount Eyre Vineyards Three Ponds Chardonnay 2021
- 91
- $33
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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Hunter Chardonnay often fails to receive the love it deserves. Sure, the style is different, but no worse for that and it often offers extra levels of flavour. This example spent time in French oak puncheons. The colour is a rich yellow. The nose reveals that there is still some oak in the process of integrating and the wine will take a step up at that time. We have notes of nutmeg and a range of spices supporting stonefruits and peaches. Good focus here and a mid-weight style that is neatly balanced. With a soft finish, this is attractive drinking now and should continue to be for the next four to five 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.
