Scarborough Keepers of the Flame Chardonnay 2023
- 94
- $100
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Deep flint and curry leaf reduction mark the opening, followed by baked apple with cinnamon, subtle woodsmoke, butter, grilled peach, vanilla bean and preserved lemon. Some butter pastry and toast notes with air. It’s deep set and powerfully complex. The palate is full bodied and textural but masterfully cut by grippy phenolics and firm fruit power. Baked apple, pastry dough, cinnamon, nectarine, and preserved lemon are buoyed by a pithy grapefruit lift. The aforementioned phenolics hold sway through the finish, acting as a frame for a bite of preserved lemon and buttered toast to carry through to long length. Toast notes lingering in the mouth perfume. There’s power, there’s complexity, there’s drive. This is a great release.
Tom Kline is a wine writer, reviewer, presenter, and educator based in Victoria, Australia. He is the Australian correspondent for the internationally respected publications Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy and Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux, where he highlights the top tier of Australian wine for a global audience. Tom also writes for leading outlets including Decanter (UK), Wine Spectator (US), and Halliday Magazine, among others. An experienced wine show judge and WSET educator, he has authored several consumer-focused wine courses aimed at making wine more accessible and engaging. In 2023, Tom was awarded Best Published Feature Article or Wine Column at the prestigious Wine Communicator Awards, presented by Wine Communicators of Australia.
