The Lane Estate Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2025
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2026-2035
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No immediate big pronouncements here, just a quiet insinuation of deep flavour that is part savoury, part citrus, part almond nutty and part exotic. And it comes beautifully tied together in a textural flow accompanied by some scintillating bright acidity. There’s plenty to like here. Aromas and flavours embrace lime peel, grapefruit, white peach, almond and chalky saline notes with a curry leaf-cum-lemongrass Asian note. Ten months maturation in French oak lends a mealy, smooth, supple feel to the Chardonnay before it closes on a lasting saline note with a flourish of pithy grapefruit tartness. Consider your tastebuds awakened.
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.
