The Lane Beginning Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2022
- 96
- $55
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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A classic Adelaide Hills Chardonnay with purity and oozing sophistication. Offers a powerful, penetrating sweep of Chardonnay aromas with Meyer lemon, lime peel, honeydew melon and white peach dressed in a toasty spiciness. The oak is a pleasure in itself, and comes following fermentation and maturation on lees for nine months in French oak (30% new), bringing added weight, class and construct. Supple on the palate with some added light tropical and sweet creamy notes, it fully blossoms with exotic touches of mango skin and Asian pear. All very harmonious, including a gentle acid crunch leaving the palate fresh as the day.
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.
