Novum Riverbrook Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
- 95
- $60
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This is very fresh and alluring with precise fruit and lovely ground spice notes melding beautifully. White peach, grapefruit, pear, ground cinnamon, nutmeg, nectarine pulp, powdery peach skin, flint. It deepens with air to reveal apricot kernel, nougat, tangerine, water chestnut and a mineral element – the amalgam of which makes for a very interesting and complex perfume. The palate is at once intense and fresh with stone fruit and spice in the lead again with notes largely akin to the nose, along with a sweet essence of lemon curd and tangerine adding a sense of completeness. There’s some powdery phenolics and a good wash of orange-citrus acidity through a finish of crystalline length. This is very impressive – complex, charming, long and utterly moreish. Brilliant.
Tom Kline is a wine writer, reviewer, presenter, and educator based in Victoria, Australia. He is the Australian correspondent for the internationally respected publications Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy and Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux, where he highlights the top tier of Australian wine for a global audience. Tom also writes for leading outlets including Decanter (UK), Wine Spectator (US), and Halliday Magazine, among others. An experienced wine show judge and WSET educator, he has authored several consumer-focused wine courses aimed at making wine more accessible and engaging. In 2023, Tom was awarded Best Published Feature Article or Wine Column at the prestigious Wine Communicator Awards, presented by Wine Communicators of Australia.
