Hutton Reserve Chardonnay 2022

  • 97
  • $100
  • Drink by: 2024-2036

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The standard Triptych is a terrific Chardonnay, but this baby takes it to another level. Like all the Hutton wines I have seen, there is immense power. This is now an exception, but it delivers a refined linear structure at this level. Yet another wine from the Wildberry Springs Vineyard, showing the intensity and fruit concentration that has made it such an important vineyard in the region. Stone fruit and savoury lemon curd aromas merge. There is some winemaking influence on the palate, but it’s been finessed so the slightly struck match savoury characters sit comfortably. There is a bright vitality on the finish with lip-smacking minerality.

Ray Jordan
Wine critic, author and journalist at Winepilot

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.

Wine writing
Pilot
Ray Jordan
Date
Variety: White Wine, Chardonnay
Categories: Drinks, Australian Wines