Thunderstone Chardonnay 2024
- 94
- $67
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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Another wonderful wine showing the virtues of the cooler climes in the Porongurup in the state’s Great Southern. The early ripening Chardonnay was ideally suited to this warmer vintage, and this is a wine that packs plenty. The aromas of lemon curd and citrus with some subtle spices open things with anticipation, and then the palate really kicks in with its intensity and power. Yet it’s all held nice and close and snug by some crisp acid and a judicious use of oak. This is a classy Chardonnay and a hugely promising one at that.
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.
