Woods Crampton Black Label Single Vineyard Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2023
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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A little extra time in bottle seems to have brought this most appealing Chardonnay out of its infancy. It was all hand-picked fruit and then whole-bunch pressed using wild yeast for fermentation. About 70% went through malolactic fermentation, contributing richness and texture to the palate. Notes of citrus and lemon meringue appear on the nose, while the palate carries plenty of lingering, intense flavours, with lemony, lightly stone fruit characters adding to the finish. An ideal wine for drinking in the short to medium term.
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.
