Chain of Ponds The Cachet Chardonnay 2023
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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This comes from two high performing blocks with the handpicked fruit treated separately in the winery. The fermentation took place in all French oak of which half was new. Then the full solids and partial malolactic fermentation bring texture and richness into the palate. Further lees stirring over six months takes it to another level of layered complexity. It’s rich and creamy but with a restraining minerality and edgy cut lime character. Loads of stone fruit and fig with a rich lemon curd filling. Very long finish to an excellent wine.
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.
