Bell & Gong Valleyfield Vineyard Chardonnay 2025
- 95
- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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This is the first Chardonnay produced from a small block planted at Valleyfield in 2019. A very good Tasmanian season has been captured beautifully in this impressive debut release after malolactic fermentation. The wine was matured in a mix of new to five-year-old French oak. There is a faint struck-match complexity on the nose, which is highly appealing. The palate shows excellent texture and intensity, expressed with fine linear definition, and a delicate acidity that sustains a long finish. A wine of real complexity and excitement for this emerging site.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
