Oakridge 864 Funder & Diamond Chardonnay 2021
- 98
- $95
- Drink by: 2023-2035
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This sensational Chardonnay is the product of an exceptional vintage and excellent fruit sourcing from this vineyard. Conditions were almost ideal with a long and cool growing season bringing the fruit to perfect condition. Hand harvested and then pressed straight into puncheons for natural fermentation. Then another 10 months on fermentation lees in oak before finishing with six months of lees in tank. It’s really allowed the fruit and oak to integrate creating a wine of finesse, purity and complexity. Slightly nutty minerally combination on the nose with a hint of struck match. The palate is deeply intense and extraordinarily long with a dry savoury flinty finish supported by fine balanced acidity which adds the final kick.
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.
