Riposte The Katana Chardonnay 2024
- 93
- $28.99
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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The katana was a curved, single-edged bladed sword favoured by the samurai. Nuff said, it was serious stuff. Equally serious is The Katana Chardonnay with its golden hues and concentrated scent of ripe yellow peach, pear, honeydew melon, yellow apple and hint of crème brûlée. Flavours are generous but also fine-edged, with finely-tuned acidity providing some impressive drive. Palate is layered in summer stone fruits with yellow peach in the lead role and supported by starfruit and Asian pear. Good width across the middle palate, texturally bright, too. Plenty to like and enjoy here.
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.
