The Lane Heritage Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2023
- 96
- $100
- Drink by: 2024-2035
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Getting down and getting serious with an Adelaide Hills Chardonnay that unwinds ever so slowly and, it must be said, irresistibly so. Seductive bouquet in autumnal, chamomile and wildflower scents, burnt match, lime zest, white peach and preserved lemon. On a palate densely packed and well-structured, there is complexity, achieved in part, through a barrel selection of top fruit parcels. Classy oak brings gentle buttery, crème brûlée to a palate layered in citrus and peach with whispers of savoury-enhanced preserved lemon. Quite the complex whole, even at this early stage. Impressive.
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.
