Port Phillip Estate Red Hill Chardonnay 2021
- 94
- $40
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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Yet another in the sub-regional collection of Mornington Peninsula Chardonnays from the team at PPE, this one really stood out as something special. There are those who feel that the Red Hill sub-region produces some of the region’s very best Chardonnay and this wine will do nothing to dissuade them of such a view. Quite pale lemon in colour. There are notes of matchsticks and lemon zest on the nose. Hazelnuts, hints of stonefruit and a minerally backing. The wine then has good focus and is linear in style. The balance and intensity sails through the full length of this wine with fine acidity intertwined with the rich fruit notes. Great drinking over the next three to five years – a serious Mornington Peninsula Chardonnay.
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.
