Brook Eden Tasting Notes
These notes, which also appear in the Tastings section of the site, are grouped together here for easy reference.
Brook Eden 2009 Chardonnay (4.5* $29/$25.60 Vintage Club) Soft peachy style with great elegance. Could drink any number of these in vast quantities, but they've yet to find a niche in the LHoC wine/food matching environment apart from the roast chicken, which isn't a seven days a week proposition, which it'd need to be to cover the rising Oz Chard wave. Fantastic wine but looking elsewhere....
Brook Eden 2010 Chardonnay (4.5* $? presumably somewhere between $32 and $27) Straw coloured, tightly wound perfumed nose that offered the promise of interesting things to come and opened up quite a lot over time, as did (surprise, surprise) the palate. Soft across the taste buds with peaches and a hint of cream that'll presumably come through increasingly as the wine develops in the bottle. Elegant style with plenty of interest that'll be worth investigating, say, in about three months and again when the Winter 2012 Vintage Club pack arrives on the doorstep. Given the fact that it's not on sale to the public yet, and presumably won't be for a while it's not one for the summer drinking order, but further down the track…
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