Heggies Vineyard Reserve Chardonnay 2021
- 94
- $52
- Drink by: 2023-2030
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A wine which reveals the best of this high altitude vineyard. It was planted in 1992 with a mix of Bernard Clones 76, 95 and 96. The fruit quality was excellent, allowing for some winemaking involvement with handpicking, whole bunch pressing and wild yeast fermentation. Once in oak, it remained there for 11 months with regular stirring building texture and complexity. Against a backdrop of brioche and stewed fig, there’s just a faint hint of struck match. The chalky, slightly oyster shell minerality does its bit in taking the palate to a very long finish while the wine retains a purity and delicacy throughout.
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.
