Victory Point Chardonnay 2019
- 95
- $55
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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This was a cooler vintage in Margaret River and this excellent chardonnay is a great example of some of the top-notch wines emerging. It’s all wild barrel fermented with battonage but no malolactic fermentation. The aim appears to have been to keep it tight and tense with that crisp minerality coming through. A little white fruit and subtle understated grapefruit with a chalky minerality. The oak has been well managed with a little less than 40% new oak working seamlessly with the older components. One of the best yet from Victory Point.
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.
