The Lane Beginning Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2023
- 95
- $55
- Drink by: 2024-2033
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Following on from the classic 2022 vintage, we see a different iteration of the Beginning Chardonnay in 2023. A long cool ’23 season sees the richness of tropical fruits of ’22 replaced by a sustained delicacy, a fine-boned approach, citrus bright with quince, cut apple, Asian pear, baking spices and smart oak. It is no less exciting, just different, which is to be appreciated. Zingy fresh acidity brings a juiciness to the middle palate. Oak – nine months in French oak, 60% new – contributes weight and texture. Tastes so good.
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.
