Soumah Hexham Vineyard Chardonnay 2025
- 96
- $54
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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If Soumah’s Ngumby Vineyard Chardonnay is the friendly one, its sibling – Hexham Vineyard Chardonnay – is the more linear and finer edged of the two, and still very much evolving. This is the keeper, the one to put aside for a while. The palate is svelte, lean and almost piercing with a strong acid presence driving tangy green apple, pear, grapefruit, lemon, white peach and honeysuckle. A fine, persistent line of acidity – zesty, fresh and bright – runs the full distance of the wine. An evolving texture is emerging before a mouth-watering grapefruit finish. All the elements are here for a Yarra Valley Chardonnay of some class. Just give it time.
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.
