Punch Lance’s Vineyard Chardonnay 2023
- 94
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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A different vintage and a very different Chardonnay experience that is tighter, leaner and all round finer. Its youth is obvious which immediately raises the potential for further bottle ageing. It is warranted and definitely something to consider. Green apple, lemon and grapefruit with a touch of gooseberry-like herbals run across the palate dressed in keen acidity, lemony tart on the tongue. Texture is just emerging. Love to see how this little beauty ages.
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.
