Elderton Eden Valley Chardonnay 2025
- 92
- $36
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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The higher altitude vineyard from which this wine was sourced has certainly helped in this warm, dry season. It comes from Eden Valley, and the vines are now approaching an average of 30 years of age. The nose is a citrusy, white peach, nectarine-like combination with a creamy cashew complexity. The palate has an edgy, crunchy, refreshing zestiness about it, with a spicy finish. It was barrel fermented in French oak with some malolactic fermentation and bâtonnage for about eight months. It’s resulted in a wine of some delicacy, yet there is a driven power here that provides for a complex, interesting 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.
