Rowlee Chardonnay 2022
- 91
- $35
- Drink by: 2023-2027
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From high altitude vineyards, 900 metres above sea level, the juice came from whole bunch pressed grapes, settled overnight and then racked to barrel, with solids, for fermentation over the next month. The wine spent a further ten months on lees in older barrels. Pale yellow colour, there are notes of stonefruit and guava with gentle oak nuances. There is some serious weight and density here, good focus, for what is a wine of medium length. There is also a bitter almond note on the finish tying things together and the intensity does not waiver. Enjoy now and for the next three to four years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
