Riversdale Estate Pisces Chardonnay 2023
- 90
- $38
- Drink by: 2023-2035
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A wine for the Pisces in your life? As a Libran, I have to say that it very much appealed to me, too. Fine in flavour, firm in line and length, this is one steely young Chardonnay. White peach, green apple and grapefruit with a bright lemon sorbet tang, and just a whisper of spice. Flavours work their way around a developing texture on the middle palate, but it is early days. There is little or no obvious oak in play here. Tassie cool climate acidity is on show and while acid nerds such as myself will enjoy Pisces now, a little more time in bottle will loosen the acid strings and release more enjoyment.
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.
