Wirra Wirra One Fine Day Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2025
- 94
- $28
- Drink by: 2026-2033
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This is an excellent little Adelaide Hills Chardonnay. Grapes were handpicked and whole bunch pressed, with the individual parcels kept separate before blending. It’s a remarkably textural wine, and that comes from the influence of the solids and the lees stirring, which gives some real substance to the palate. It was matured in a mix of largely stainless steel with about 40% French oak and just 5% new. So it retains its steely fresh vibrancy, that crisp minerality, chalky acidity, and slightly citrusy melon fruits. Sustained long finish. An excellent wine and great value.
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.
