Mania Coal River Chardonnay 2023
- 93
- $37
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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This is quite a lovely Chardonnay from the Coal River Valley in Tasmania. With extra time in bottle, it has just started to reveal some richer, more textural characters. It presents a wine of great flavour and intensity on the nose, with a lavish mix of stone fruits, nectarine, white peach and some toasty oak merging with vanillin characters. The palate has started to fill out, but it’s still held in tight control and focused through to a long, sustained finish. Toasty oak influence is evident but sits harmoniously. That plush fruit is lifted with a fine, chalky acidity through to the finish. An excellent wine for the next few years.
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.
