Southern Light Vineyards Ghost Gum Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
- 94
- $90
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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This comes from the Mornington Peninsula in a vintage of tiny yields as a result of the weather conditions in spring impacting on flowering and fruit set. It’s an impressive wine having said all that, with excellent depth of fruit showing on the palate, which has a slightly cashew, peachy character about it. It also has good acidity, which helps define the palate and prolong a sustained finish. Despite the fact that it didn’t have malolactic fermentation, it has good palate richness as a result of it being kept on full lees for about twelve months.
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.
