Voyager Estate Chardonnay 2022
- 92
- $60
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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Gentle east facing site produces a distinctive mineral and robust style of Chardonnay and one I always enjoy. The 2022 vintage displays the chalk dust and struck blue stone character strongly with lemon peel, white peach and Monstera Deliciosa fruit. There is a coolness to the slight tropical flavour of the fruit, a bit like fresh mint in a tropical punch. The wine’s acidity is spritely and lively with a peanut shell nuttiness on the finish. The wine matures in French oak for 9 months of which 30% is new. The vineyard site shines here with oak handled well and in support of its exotic fruit spectrum. A wine drinking very well now and will age up to 5 years. Drink with mudcrab curry and roti.
Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.
