Cherubino Ovale Chardonnay 2025
- 96
- $71
- Drink by: 2026-2033
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This is from the Gingin clone at the Willows Vineyard in Wilyabrup. The power and concentrated intensity of this Wilyabrup Chardonnay provide quite a contrast to the finer, more delicate Karridale Chardonnay from the Dijon clone. The winemaking process is much the same, with handpicking and whole-bunch pressing into a mix of new and one-year-old French barrels. It’s a wine of tremendous power and drive, but once again it picks up the delicacy and finesse that mark this vintage, with a slightly smoky, savory nuance that works within cut-lime and oyster-shell minerality. Sustained, 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.
