Riversdale Estate Crater Chardonnay 2022
- 92
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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A selection of the best barrels. Mid gold. Roasted nuts, plush stone fruits peach and nectarine aromas with melon, citrus and a mighty fine spiciness that just about steals the show. As a three-year-old it’s travelling nicely, coming together on the palate and delivering a bit of a wow moment with its ripe stone fruits, woody spices, almond buttery-ness and background oak presence allayed to pared back acidity. There’s concentration and textural layering making it a good food wine.
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.
