Schoolhouse Headmaster Chardonnay 2025
- 93
- $55
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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This pathway-sourced Chardonnay has developed into a most reliable value-for-money wine. It’s captured this vintage rather well, producing a delicate yet flavoursome expression with good complexity and poise. Opens with a bright lemony stone fruit note and a touch of spice. And then on the palate, slightly roasted cashew and vanilla pod flavours start to emerge. Has quite delicious texture, with the creaminess offset by an edgy citrus tang. It has some nice oak influence, which has been precisely balanced to create a wine that fits together snugly. Most attractive current drinking Chardonnay.
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.
