The Lane Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2023
- 91
- $30
- Drink by: 2024-2029
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Fab price for a mighty enjoyable, drink-now Chardonnay that ticks so many of the right boxes. Sunny, mid-yellow colour in the glass, goes on to reveal lifted aromas in ripe pear, melon, citrus and spiced apple. There’s a delightful spiciness at play here in tune with the pear and apple that goes on to light up the palate. It’s warm, rich and full of flavour – just the ticket for this approaching winter and heavier food matching possibilities. Others might disagree, but I wouldn’t be inclined to age any further, enjoy the moment!
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.
