Riversdale Estate Crater Chardonnay 2021
- 95
- $80
- Drink by: 2023-2031
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Ah, that scent! It grabs you and simply won’t let you go, not that you want it to. Complex flinty aromas, some lemon citrus, chalk, white peach, pear, a light dash of hazelnutty oak. The palate continues on cue, built on fine-etched, sherbet-like acidity. It is all about composure with this wine, strength and layered flavours and structure. A fellow wine writer once described a fine Tasmanian Chardonnay as boasting “ocean freshness.” That memorable, evocative term comes to mind to describe the beauty of this wine perfectly. Boasting impressive drive, the wine rolls out through the palate producing that buttery smoothness that works so well with the citrus and clean mineral tang. A long, fresh, clean, penetrating finish.
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.
