Juniper Estate Cornerstone Wilyabrup Chardonnay 2020
- 97
- $70
- Drink by: 2021-2031
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This is the initial release of this wine and follows the Karridale sourced version released earlier this year. It is a stunning wine. A blend of Clone 95 and the ubiquitous Gingin clone. Wild yeast fermented and no malolactic fermentation, although lees stirring has brought texture and richness into the powerful palate. Intense and powerful with a lemon curd, roasted cashew and light toast complementing the fruit concentration. Has a dry, savoury slightly chalky finish. It is a masterful wine and may well be the best chardonnay yet from Messenger and the crew at Juniper.
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.
