Windowrie Sakura Chardonnay 2023
- 92
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2029
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The Sakura range is fruit sourced from organic fruit grown in the estate’s Homestead blocks in the Central Ranges. The wine spent a year and a half maturing in oak. An appealing yellow hue, there are aromas of peaches, nectarines, florals, cashews and mandarins, along with a hint of well-handled oak. A very attractive and youthful style of Chardonnay, full of flavour, this is an easy drinking style, but is quite delicious. It is a wine of medium length, which will provide pleasure for the next three to 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.
