De Bortoli Phi Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2022
- 96
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This is sourced from the Lusatia Park vineyard in the Yarra that De Bortoli acquired a few years ago. It really is an exceptional example of the style of wine De Bortoli is producing. There’s a deep intensity in this wine and a structural character that, quite frankly, is not unlike that you might see in Burgundy. There’s a chalky, fine, almost talcy acidity that offsets the deep, savoury fruit characters that thrive through the palate. Flavours of light lemon meringue, slightly roasted cashew and savoury notes. The palate is tight with a crisp acidity, and those chalky fruit characters define and help to sustain the long finish. There’s real power here but presented with control and precision through to its very 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.
