Peos Estate Four Kings Chardonnay 2023
- 91
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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A youthful but intensely flavoured style of Chardonnay. As ever, the quality of fruit shines through. This has a pale lemon hue and offers notes of peaches and florals on the nose. There is lemon and grapefruit presented with quite citrussy acidity. A fresh, energetic and lean style offering good concentration. There are hints of nuts on the palate and it finishes with a nod to mandarins. A wine of decent length which will offer pleasure 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.
