Wills Domain Eightfold Chardonnay 2024
- 92
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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A fine Margaret River Chardonnay, which comes from a pair of local vineyards, Allan Rock and Wylco, with a dollop from estate plantings, the wine underwent a natural fermentation in barrel, before nine months maturation. Malolactic fermentation is restricted to a small portion of the wine. A gleaming straw hue, the nose shows that this is a wine of good intensity with notes of stone fruits, hazelnuts, peaches, melon, a flick of well-integrated oak and a whiff of grapefruit. That serious intensity is even more evident when we move to the palate. The texture is supple, the wine well balanced and there is a lingering finish. Enjoy it 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.
