Yow Yow Limited Release Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2017
- 91
- $45
- Drink by: 2023-2027
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For those with long memories, the 2017 vintage in the Yarra Valley was heralded as a great year, arguably the best since 1992. If you are going to issue a limited release wine, this is the year in which to do it. Bottle age has delivered some attractive exotic notes to this warm and unctuous Chardonnay. Lemongrass, ginger, yellow peach, mango skin, fig and nut crowd the bouquet. Satisfyingly rich and boasting plenty of flavour, the palate sings in lifted citrus, stone fruits and pear, lovely spice and ginger, then gently nutty and creamy to close. Drinking at it best now, especially so if the food match involves roast chicken.
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.
