Riposte The Halberd Chardonnay 2024
- 95
- $55
- Drink by: 2025-2034
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The Riposte team have dug into history to resurrect the halberd, a long-handled axe blade favoured by musketeers (among others), to help describe their lively, linear and pure ’24 Adelaide Hills Chardonnay. And why not? Scintillating Adelaide Hills acidity is at its best as it cuts and thrusts with energy leading a concentrated wine with wildflower aromatics, citrus aplenty, quince, Meyer lemon, lime peel, green apple and white peach dressed in gently flinty edges. The palate is poised and crisp, linear and long. Chalky, saline juiciness enlivens the taste buds. All class.
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.
