Seppelt Drumborg Vineyard Chardonnay 2023
- 95
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2031
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Winemaker Clare Dry has exerted quite an influence on this wine since taking over in 2021. The intention is to make a wine that strongly reflects the Drumborg Vineyard. It was 100% whole bunch pressed and fermented on full solids in barriques of which 30% was new. Full malolactic was used to balance the high natural acidity. I love the purity and energy in its core and how the textural influences have been created in the winery. At the same time, it never loses that essential Drumborg linear thread that carries through to a lingering 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.
