Southern Light Vineyards Seven Slopes of Rising Chardonnay 2024
- 95
- $90
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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This is from the Yarra Valley in what was a cool and wet year resulting in wines that are generally finer and more linear than some previous vintages. In the making, the batches of Bernard and I-10V5 clones were kept separate until being pulled together for final blending. Whole bunch pressing to French oak and a mix of hogsheads and puncheons with about thirty-five percent new. It was wild yeast fermented and just a small amount of malolactic fermentation, presumably to bring some texture into this finer vintage. It’s a lovely powdery, talcy aromatic with a sort of lemon pith edge to it. The palate is precise and linear, but with a crisp, stony, pebbly feel to it that adds to its complexity and structural appeal. An attractive wine.
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.
