Pike & Joyce Lenswood Sirocco Chardonnay 2024
- 94
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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I like this wine from a vintage that produced some quality fruit in the Adelaide Hills. There’s a mix of whole bunch and de-stemmed fruit before wild yeast fermentation, which includes some juice solids. Only a small part of the wine goes through malolactic fermentation, so it retains a nice crisp acidity. On the nose, it captures the classic peach and stone fruit nuances with a touch of nectarine and just the faintest of faint, slightly struck match influence that adds to its aromatic and textural appeal. On the palate, it’s generous but finely balanced with almost a delicacy that belies the lingering power that carries effortlessly to a long finish. It’s an expertly crafted wine that is thoroughly engaging on release, but with further cellaring will capture the quality of the fruit.
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.
