Port Phillip Estate Red Hill Chardonnay 2023
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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Hard to miss those fresh, summery aromas in grapefruit, lemon, white peach and struck flint. The follow up on the palate is equally impressive with a solid core of stone and citrus fruits across the palate and through to the finish, matched to bright, briny acidity. There is some textural, mealy smoothness here but, really, this is all about brisk, clean, crisp and linear. The role of oak almost goes unnoticed which is actually a mark of good winemaking, you know it’s there but it’s discreet. Salivating stuff all round.
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.
