Warramunda Liv Zak Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2020
- 91
- $38
- Drink by: 2021 - 2026
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A challenging year in so many ways for Victorian vignerons and I, for one, am thrilled to see any 2020 wines being released.
I think the alcohol reading of just 12.5% indicates a deliberate early picking and for chardonnay that means a promotion of citrus over the more familiar tropical, stone fruits. It makes for a refreshing change. Honeysuckle, apple blossom, lemon balm scents aplenty.
It’s still early days for this just-bottled youngster but it is developing some pretty tasty citrus, lime and grapefruit flavours with apple across a palate that is linear in style.
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.
