Holm Oak the Wizard Chardonnay 2024
- 95
- $65
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This is a generous and deeply complex Chardonnay from a slightly warmer vintage in Tasmania. It was wild fermented in oak and then about 50% went through malolactic fermentation. About half was matured in new French oak, while the rest was in one-year-old oak. This has had some oak, yet the intensity of the fruit has been perfectly complemented and certainly not overcome. Aromas of cashew, melon, and stone fruit. On the palate, there’s a creamy, slightly savoury character that extends with great precision through to a long finish. It is a most impressive young Chardonnay.
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.
