Petaluma Chardonnay White Label Adelaide Hills 2024
- 92
- $29
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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A famous name in Australian Chardonnay, this is from Adelaide Hills fruit, offering ripe and delicious flavours, with a line of fine, juicy acidity etched in for the full journey. The colour is a clear, pale straw and the nose offers aromas of stone fruit and tropical characters. There is apricot, orange rind and a hint of bitter lemon. This is well crafted with a tight structure, very good length and concentration throughout. Appealing now, with room to improve it will drink well for six to eight 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.
