Yering Station Single Vineyard Spring Lane Chardonnay 2025

A sunny Chardonnay for a rainy Melbourne day – which automatically makes it the perfect vinous antidote for those winter months ahead, wherever you might be. This is a wine full of life and flavour, headlining ripe – and definitely sunny – Yarra Valley fruit. Aromas close in on lime, lemon, grapefruit – the whole citrus family is there, including florals – with pear and peach, lively spice and a gentle nuttiness that shines. Settles into a warm lusciousness against a backbone of fresh acidity on the palate, with the addition of an enticing flavour, a hazelnut, crème brûlée, toasty kind of quality that enriches the wine. Ten months in French oak has brought an added touch, and it’s been lapped right up.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic