Port Phillip Estate Morillon Chardonnay 2023
- 95
- $75
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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A single block Mornington Peninsula Chardonnay you can set your watch to. Each release boasts an incredible energy married to exhilarating fruit. It never disappoints. The 2023 Morillon is an exercise in precision with a cool, low cropping vintage intensity. Aromas in citrus, nectarine, white peach, struck flint with lemon sorbet lift and verve. Pure fruit on the palate with a real fine-ness, so don’t over chill before serving. Flows brightly aided by a pulsing, bright acidity in league with ripe stone fruits, citrus, grapefruit pith with notes of lees-defined nougat and integrated vanillin oak. A real beauty of a Chardonnay.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
