Plantagenet Three Lions Chardonnay 2025
- 93
- $27
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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This is from the Rocky Horror vineyard, planted in 1999. It is a more sophisticated Chardonnay than you might expect at this price point. It receives a little oak influence, but the emphasis is firmly on the fruit. It has a steely mineral structure with a palate that is still tight and linear. Having said that, it has excellent fruit intensity and impressive palate length, finishing with bright, zingy acidity.
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.
