Tomich Adelaide Hills Woodside Chardonnay 2022
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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From the Adelaide Hills, the Woodside sub-region, this is a thoroughly enjoyable Chardonnay with a yellow/straw hue. Taut, poised, it is quite a minerally style with notes of stone fruits, mandarins, cashews and spices. Seamless in structure, although it does broaden on the palate, there is a great deal of fruit here providing pleasure and papering over any very minor hiccups. Indeed, it is no shrinking violet when it comes to flavour. There is good length here and the wine should provide pleasure for the next four to five years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
