Riposte The Katana Chardonnay 2025
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2026-2033
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Effortlessly enters into super drinking Chardonnay territory – super friendly and full of flavour. Nectarine, white peach aromas and hints of tropical fruits with citrus and almond meal. A gentle, leesy nuttiness lingers. Brings a lot to the glass at this young stage, so inviting and so darn drinkable and easy to enjoy with stone and tropical fruits, citrus, grapefruit pith tartness and almond meal punctuated in a light woody spice. Yep, there’s a fair bit happening, but it is so nicely, evenly trimmed in acidity that is bright and juicy and lightly grippy to close. Fulfils the price and then some.
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.
