Stonehaven Limited Vineyard Release Padthaway Chardonnay 2024
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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An elegant style of Chardonnay from the Padthaway region, this is a deep yellow in colour. The nose exhibits notes of stone fruits, peaches, nectarines, florals, a flick of lime and hints of river stones. Good intensity, but this is a Chardonnay which is refined and balanced. There is good focus here, a pleasingly creamy texture, with bright acidity and a lingering finish. Expect this to drink well for the next three to five years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
