Brown Brothers Patricia Chardonnay 2019
- 95
- $48
- Drink by: 2023 - 2030
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The really big leap forward for the Patricia range – if you take out the marvellous botrytis and sparkling wines – has been with chardonnay. And it is the result of Brown Brothers decision some years ago to put a toe and then a giant footprint in Tasmania. The fruit for this excellent chardonnay now comes from East and North-East Tasmania. The use of whole bunch pressing has introduced a tight structural core while the white peachy stone fruit nuances cling to the frame creating a beautiful mouthfeel. It has a distinct minerally thread with a slightly chalky character which add to a classy, tightly controlled chardonnay, showing the progress Brown Brothers have made with this variety since focussing on Tassie.
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.
