Cullen Wines Kevin John Chardonnay 2021
- 98
- $180
- Drink by: 2022-2042
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Gosh, where do you start with this exceptional chardonnay that marks the 50th year of winemaking at Cullen. Harvested across 3 weeks, including fruit and flower days, and fermented naturally in biodynamic barrels, concrete eggs and amphorae. This wine was matured in 35% new puncheons for 8 months before bottling without fining or filtration. There’s a subtle aromatic fragrance of spice and cumquat. The palate is precise and defined by its length and linear profile. When tasted, it was still coiled and tight as a drum with a savoury and slightly struck match complexity. Very long cellaring potential, and just when you think Vanya Cullen and her team have pushed things to the limit, they push again. Such a pure expression of vineyard, season and region.
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.
