Tapanappa Vineyard Tiers Vineyard 1.5m Chardonnay 2024
- 95
- $90
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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The use of 1.5m informs the drinker that a part of the vineyard has been close-planted – a 1.5 metre spacing between rows of vines – a fact that can excite some because of the suggestion of higher quality, amongst other more viticultural-related things. A tightly coiled, extra youthful Chardonnay expression emerges in ’24, a cool year, with a taut, almost bracing level of acidity discernible now (for those interested, total acid is 7.58 grams per litre). But, it’s early days. Emerging citrus, stone fruits, Meyer lemon, honeydew melon, hazelnut, spice and something I have noted as “smokey honeycomb” – it’s a good thing – fill the palate. This is a complex wine at the start of its life which means the wine’s textural component is building. Everything is in place but consider giving the wine more time alone before broaching. It will benefit enormously from it.
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.
