Yarraloch Stephanie’s Dream Chardonnay 2021
- 94
- $80
- Drink by: 2024-2031
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This is the team’s pointy end Chardy and deservedly so. A cracking wine. Pale lemon gold in colour, with hints of green flecks, this is a step up in elegance and refinement but maintains the same discipline with balance and focus and the same intensity of flavours. Here we have notes of figs, stone fruits, florals and lemon cheesecake. A wine which is beautifully focused and balanced, with seabreeze fresh acidity running the full length. A creamy, cushiony texture with some cashew oak evident, though it is immaculately integrated. Superb length rounds things out in a Chardy which provides so much to like. Enjoy over the next five to seven 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.
