Wills Domain Eightfold Chardonnay 2023
- 92
- $45
- Drink by: 2024-2029
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The team aim to preserve the vibrancy and freshness of the wine by ensuring that only a small percentage goes through malolactic fermentation. It works well. The colour here is a gleaming gold and the wine is taut, poised and refined. Notes of stonefruit, figs and lemongrass with very gentle oak evident and a smoked riverstone note. The palate sees more melon and peach characters. Juicy and delicious, with a seductive texture, here is a wine of medium length and fine acidity. There is room for this to improve even more in the coming years. Enjoy now and for the next 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.
