Stella Bella Suckfizzle Margaret River Chardonnay 2022
- 97
- $90
- Drink by: 2023-2032
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A cracker of a vintage, a cracker of a wine. Reconciles the seemingly irreconcilable, the rich and complex with the refined and elegant. Aromas of lemon skin, preserved lemon, spiced apple, nectarine, white peach, sea spray. Meshes easily on the palate, works in balance and is beautifully delivered. On the palate gathers pace and complexity in layers of citrus, a touch of gooseberry, mango skin, spiced custard, stone fruits, nougat with a quince-like tartness/acidity that rings long and true through to the finish. Offers good weight, grip, flavour, flesh and oak integration. The only question left is when to open. Me? I’d wait.
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.
