Riposte Morningstar Chardonnay Adelaide Hills 2025
- 94
- $75
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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A high quality Adelaide Hills Chardonnay which will provide thoroughly enjoyable drinking now, whilst it would undoubtedly benefit even further from a stint in the cellar. Yellow/straw in colour, this is balanced, fresh, focused, linear and exhibiting pleasing elegance throughout. A refined style with good length, there are notes of citrus, florals, lemons and hints of peaches, with a deftly handled touch of oak. Bright and zesty acidity runs the length, and the intensity is maintained throughout. As mentioned, a stint in the cellar will only improve things and it should drink beautifully over the next six to ten 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.
