Riversdale Estate Chardonnay 2025
- 94
- $50
- Drink by: 2026-2032
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So much happening within the confines of a well-structured, highly flavoursome Chardonnay. After pressing the free-run juice, once settled, it went into fermentation for maturation on lees. An interesting twist in the tale of this wine is that, of the 25% new oak and the remainder older oak, there was 60% American and 40% French oak. The aromas show a lemon rind and grapefruit nuance with intense stone fruits. On the palate, the rich flavours are balanced by a nice savouriness that keeps it focused, along with that fine lingering acidity, the result of no malolactic fermentation, taking it through to a long and sustained finish.
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.
