Ghostgum Vineyard Southern Light Vineyards Chardonnay 2023
- 95
- $85
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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This was a cool and wet year in Mornington, presenting a challenging vintage. The wine has emerged triumphantly. Hand-picked and wild yeast fermented in a combination of French oak, with about 30% new. A portion underwent malolactic fermentation, combining with the non-malolactic character to bring palate richness and fine precision. It’s a delicate wine with light floral fragrances, a lemony melon character, and a faint biscuity influence. The palate is fine, with a deep fruit intensity in the white stone fruit zone. Balanced, poised, and perfectly framed with crisp chalky acidity providing finishing definition.
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.
