Taylors Jaraman Clare Valley/Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2024
- 92
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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Always fascinating to see regional blends, especially when they are a bit left field. No matter, it works. The result is a good value Chardy with considerable refinement. The colour here is a lemon/straw. There are notes of melon, stone fruits and florals with a flick of citrus, lemon curd, and hints of spicy oak, French. There is a supple texture with fine acidity and a persistent finish. A wine of good balance with a degree of elegance, for enjoying over the next four to six 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.
