Flametree Chardonnay 2021
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2022-2028
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Anyone who thinks vintage doesn’t matter so much should look at the 2020 and 2021 vintages in Margaret River. Both have produced quite different but equally impressive wines. In fact while some might prefer the opulence of 2020, others may gravitate towards the 2021. Flametree’s 2021 chardie is a more linear and precisely crafted chardonnay. Aromas in the pear and citrus spectrum with just a squeeze of grapefruit. The palate is tightly harnessed with finely integrated oak, a crunchy and tingling textured in the mouth with a lifted acidity promoting a long palate. Some nice traces of creamy stone fruit and subtle honeycomb emerge as it opens in the glass.
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.
