Suckfizzle Margaret River Chardonnay 2024

Fun fact: 700 vines produced this wine. The vines are also located on the most southerly vineyard in Margaret River. Extra fun fact: its deep concentration and impressive intensity of flavour means it will undoubtedly still be singing strong in 15+ years’ time.  At this early stage it is yet to fully reveal all, but the signs show an exceptional wine starting to emerge. Aromas rise in citrus and apple blossom, cut apple, grapefruit, lemon zest, peach and light spice. Taut and precise, there’s a quiet power to this wine. It opens slowly, quietly, with summer stone fruits, citrus, apple with oak worked in deep and toasted almond notes, vanillin spice and a leesy, mealy warmth emerging. Masterfully composed. Give it the time it deserves.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic