Wirra Wirra Yandra Vineyard Lenswood Chardonnay 2024
- 96
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2034
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This famous McLaren Vale producer has moved into the cooler climes of the Adelaide Hills and Lenswood to source fruit for this excellent Chardonnay. The vineyard was planted in 1998 to the G9V7 clone, which has proved ideal for the region. Intense savoury, slightly roasted cashew notes lift from the nose, while the palate is deeply penetrating and complex. There’s a nice butterscotch and honeycomb-like character, a touch of grapefruit, and some notes of vanilla. Powerful and complex through to a sustained finish.
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.
