Brokenwood Wondalma Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
- 95
- $66
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This high-altitude vineyard, sitting in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, consistently produces first-rate Chardonnay. In the winery, it’s been whole-bunch pressed and naturally fermented in 100% French oak, combining to produce a very smart, elegant wine. The relatively high level of new oak (50%) is surprising, yet the intensity and concentration of the fruit balance it beautifully — never excessive. There are normal citrus and melon characters, but that dry, savoury chalkiness really defines and focuses the long finish.
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.
