Stonehaven Stepping Stone Chardonnay 2021
- 89
- $20
- Drink by: 2022-2024
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Sourced from three discrete Limestone Coast vineyards, care is taken to ensure harvesting, done in the cool of the evening, occurs at the optimum moment to promote varietal characters. Sorting takes place in the vineyard, before a gentle pressing, cool fermentation and three months on yeast lees. 20% of the wine sees barrel fermentation to assist with promoting complexity.
This is bright and fresh, as intended, with a hint of spice and even a note like freshly baked pastry. Apples, stonefruit and more, this is a simple and easy drinking style, which is very pleasant. Hints of citrus emerge on the palate. Just right for a light chilling and serving over the next year or two.
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.
