Mandoon Estate Reserve Chardonnay 2020
- 95
- $59
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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Like a lot of very good chardonnays, this one comes from Karridale to the south of Margaret River town. It’s certainly one of the best yet from Mandoon. Intensity, power, and finesse all wrapped into a controlled and quite precise package. Wild yeast fermentation in barrel has contributed to the inbuilt complexity evident on the nose and the palate. There is mouth feel and then the pristine purity of a lively fine Karridale acidity kicks into elevate further.
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.
