Riversdale Estate Chardonnay 2023
- 91
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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Shows some complexity, courtesy of warm, cedary and toasty oak, amongst the citrus, stone fruits and spice. It’s still a wine coming together with oak yet to fully integrate but give it time. It is essentially a linear line of flavour at this early stage, one that will fill out but the basis for a complex future is there. Nectarine, white peach, melon, lemon flavours are joined by roasted nuts, nougat and a smoky oak char on the palate. Crisp acidity is a hallmark.
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.
