Wolf Blass Grey Label Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2022
- 92
- $40
- Drink by: 2023-2030
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Feel the richness and width. Grey Label Chardonnay combines Adelaide Hills’ usual sunny citrus fruits and bright personality with some added warmth and texture. It comes in part from fermentation in new and seasoned French oak barriques and a full, spontaneous (second) malolactic fermentation that has softened some of the edges and introduced attractive leesy, nougat, almond meal characters, contributing complexity, texture and length. Runs a strong citrus thread throughout in lemon, key lime and grapefruit pith aided and abetted by some exotic touches in fennel seed, cardamon, spice and fancy lees and oak work. Experienced winemaker Marie Clay had some lovely fruit to work with and didn’t waste the opportunity.
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.
