Soumah Upper Ngumby Vineyard Chardonnay 2025
- 95
- $54
- Drink by: 2026-2032
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The question is – do you drink now or save for later? This single vineyard Yarra Valley Chardonnay is so nicely concentrated and integrated that the tendency to indulge right now is strong. This is a wine to test your willpower. Quiet in aromas, a little subdued at first, in lemon citrus, white peach, pear, spring florals and dusty honeysuckle. Beautifully composed with an almost effortless flavour intensity, texture and length with luscious citrus and summer stone fruits anchored to a solid acidity and a core of quality, biscuity oak. Has presence and enough power under the hood to keep going, but this is just so friendly you will be sorely tempted to open now.
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.
