Tread Softly Chardonnay 2021
- 92
- $22
- Drink by: 2023-2029
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Very much the modern approach here – good value, good drinking, lower than usual alcohol (11%) and consideration given to the impact on the environment. Management has decreed that for every six bottles of Tread Softly sold, they will plant an Australian native tree in a regeneration program. Drink up and save the world.
The wine sees time in used French oak barriques. Pale lemon in colour, the nose offers citrus notes and gentle oak integration. With florals and lemons, the palate has some richness and depth while fresh and delicious. There are lovely crème brulee and lemon pie flavours on the palate too. With very good length, this should drink well over the next four to six years. And such cracking value.
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.
