To Try, Buy And Put By

TO TRY: Giant Steps, Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2016, €29.99 (91), from Martins Off Licence, Fairview, Dublin, at martinsofflicence.ie and by the case from wineonline.ie

This Australian wine is a delicious, toasty, acacia-honey and light, nutty delight of a chardonnay. It is made by Phil Sexton and his chief winemaker Steve Flamsteed, whose wines have notched up a decade’s worth of gold medals. Incidentally, neither of them headed to wine initially; Flamsteed spent much ...