Parched Crow Chardonnay 2023
- 94
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2036
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Hunter Chardonnay can sometimes slip under the radar, yet when it does well, it’s a particularly fine wine. This is fine and almost delicate, yet with a deep, lingering intensity. There’s a tropical fruit–cashew combination emerging on the nose with a lemon zest edge. The palate has a slightly creamy texture, but it’s held tight and controlled with fine acidity and some nice influence of new French oak puncheons. I really enjoy drinking this style of wine when it’s young, yet it has everything to handle some cellaring over the next 10 years. Most attractive style.
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.
