Cherubino Margaret River Chardonnay 2025
- 97
- $84
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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Brings together fruit from the best blocks within the sub-regions of Karridale and Wilyabrup in Margaret River. Typically, handpicked and whole-bunch pressed before fermentation in a new and one-year-old French oak combination for just eight months. There’s power and complexity here, evident immediately on the nose and reinforced on the palate. Quince, crème brûlée, and lemon-meringue aromas swirl through a highly aromatic opening, and then on the palate there’s a richness and concentrated depth that gathers before driving through to a long, sustained finish with a final lick of minerality. It’s a terrific 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.
