Squitchy Lane The Key Chardonnay 2021
- 95
- $55
- Drink by: 2024-2031
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There’s something special about the 2021 vintage in the Yarra Valley. The Key Chardonnay takes it to the next level at Squitchy Lane delivering a seamless beauty and a delicate tone, too. Sourced from the oldest part of the Chardonnay vineyard at Gruyere, planted in the early 1980s, The Key is so subtle, finely textured and just beautifully expressive. The scent shows off some pretty expensive, fragrant vanillin oak – ever artful and nicely blended – with nectarine, citrus apple. Arrives structured and ready to explore further, delving into quince, white peach, apple and citrus flavours wedded to a tangy acid drive. Mighty fine.
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.
