Monty’s Leap Single Vineyard The Mulberry Block Chardonnay 2025
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2032
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This has consistently been a very good wine for Monty’s Leap, and with winemaker Brendan Smith involved, it will continue to be refined. It’s barrel fermented, creating quite a rich style, and then further time in new oak, in fact for up to 12 months, has added to its palate complexity, texture and richness. There’s a nice cashew and spicy cinnamon-like character on the nose, and the palate, while textured and creamy, is held with nice restraint and focus by that crisp acidity and a slightly lemony edge. A terrific wine from Albany in the Great Southern.
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.
