Step By Step The Mum Chardonnay 2020
- 87
- $15
- Drink by: 2021 - 2023
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The people behind Step By Step have taken an “unorthodox” approach to re-branding their on-premise brand. It will become obvious when you see the labels and the accompanying quiz.
The wines are well-priced, sourced from multiple regions in South Australia and sell for $15. The South Australian chardonnay is supposed to be “the mum” of the squad and feel like “Bridget Jones.” Not sure about the sexism at play here.
However it is as described, it remains a light and gentle chardonnay that doesn’t ask too much of the drinker. Just open and enjoy. Citrus, ripe melon, sweet peach across the aroma and palate with some lifted, lively spice characters.
It’s also bouncy and juicy with a sherbet-like acid presence.
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.
