Cullen Kevin John Legacy Series Fruit Day Chardonnay 2021
- 98
- $350
- Drink by: 2022-2042
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There is a striking difference between this wine and the Flower Day Kevin John. Both are outstanding. But this has a finer, leaner profile while losing nothing in power and lingering intensity. This is an artisanal wine, hand harvested on a biodynamic fruit day. After hand sorting these bunches were placed in amphora for two days skin contact, before pressing into 50% new puncheons to ferment and resting in oak for 8 months before bottling, with no fining or filtration. This shows aromas and flavours that are more in the honeycomb and bright citrus zone. There is less of that cereal, stone fruit character and more lifted high energy fruit. There is a little spice and ginger with lingering notes of orange blossom. A mighty fine 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.
