SOUMAH Hexham Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
- 95
- $52
- Drink by: 2025-2034
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After a bumpy finish to the 2023 year, this vintage actually turned out pretty damn well in the Yarra Valley. After barrel fermentation with all wild yeast, the wine was matured on lees and a combination of barriques and puncheons for about eight months. A little secondary fermentation added the depth and complexity that you might expect. On the nose is a creamy brioche butterscotch combination with a little melon and nectarine. The palate builds intensity, showing a lovely balance of oak and fruit, and good length and persistence. It’s a mighty good chardonnay from a mighty good vintage.
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.
