Voyager Estate Chenin Blanc 2020
- 94
- $22
- Drink by: 2021 - 2027
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Every now and then a wine comes along that captivates from the first swirl. I barely needed to raise the glass to my nose to be entranced by juicy yellow peaches and papaya, honeysuckle and beeswax.
A sip offers up the texture of honey, collected by native bees mining the nectar of wildflowers, but without the sweetness – all slippery and smooth and begging for more. When I look for it, the characteristic zippy Chenin Blanc acidity is there but it takes a supporting role, ensuring the wine finishes fresh and bright after all the seduction.
I’m calling it, this is one of the best value wines around. Slurp it with spicy Korean rice cakes.
Nicole loves wine. So much so that she gave up a successful career in Pharmacy, perfected her spitting technique, and moved from sunny Queensland to the wine-drenched laneways of Melbourne. Stints in hospitality, wineries, retail, sales and marketing filled the next few years while Nicole built her knowledge and searched for the right path. She completed the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Diploma in 2016 and became a certified WSET Educator the following year. She now juggles a number of roles including teaching people about wine, curating wines lists for restaurants and bars, judging in Australian wine shows and, of course, writing. In 2016 she won the Negociants Working With Wine writing award and has since contributed to Gourmet Traveller WINE, Halliday Wine Companion Magazine and Nourish Magazine.
