The Lane Vineyard Estate Chardonnay 2024
- 95
- $55
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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In a word: refined. Sometimes, it only takes one word to describe a wine such as this, a wine that reveals its cool climate nature beautifully citrus bright and delivers it across impressive filigree-fine acidity. Aromas of citrus, nectarine, white peach, lime zest with a touch of hazelnut. The palate is taut and compact, really elegant, layered and, yes, refined. The oak component, 49% new French oak, comes in nicely integrated, contributing to the wine’s texture and length, which is impressive. Equally so, the depth of white stone fruits, citrus, grilled nuts and almond nougat complexity still on the rise.
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.
