Wynns Coonawarra Estate Coonawarra Messenger Chardonnay 2024
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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A glistening green gold hue offers an impressive start. Lifted aromatics keep the momentum going with aromas of nectarine, white peach and citrus with the lasting scent of apple blossom. The ’24 Coonawarra vintage was cool and dry and Chardonnay responded with a supple, elegant wine that lays everything out up front and is generous across the middle palate before being nicely corralled by lively acidity into a bright finish. An effortless chalky texture combines with well-composed oak – eight months in French oak, 27% new – and ripe stone fruits, citrus, grilled nuts and buttery lemon curd. Brings a sunny outlook to the future of Chardonnay in Coonawarra.
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.
