Riposte Wines The Katana Chardonnay 2023
- 90
- $29
- Drink by: 2024-2033
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The ’23 vintage in the Adelaide Hills was cool, the coolest in 100 years. The wet and cold season played a big part in this wine, delivering a delicate, linear expression of Chardonnay, more so than usual for the region. Aromas of just-ripe peach, nectarine, lemon, grapefruit and apple blossom florals are subtle and alluring. Quite refined with a youthful vitality delivering citrus and stone fruits hand in hand with a bustling lemony acidity. On the leaner side at this early stage, and while acid hounds will rejoice, the best is yet to come.
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.
