Schild Estate Old Vines Chardonnay 2025
- 91
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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A similar style to the standard, though it exhibits a little more elegance and some good intensity. A gentle lemon/straw hue, there is a touch of finesse here, which works very well. The flavours revolve around notes of stone fruits and melon and the finish is all crunchy apples. There is good length here, with some gentle persistence. Fresh and most pleasant now, it will continue to drink well over the next two to three 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.
