Xanadu Vinework Chardonnay 2024
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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This is another impressive Chardonnay that offers both class and value for money. It was a very early, hot and dry vintage, yet the Chardonnays that emerged have typically been very good—and this is one of them. After a whole bunch pressing and barrel fermentation, the wine was aged for nine months in oak, 25% of which was new. It gets a fair bit of winemaking attention and treatment. It shows lovely stone fruit nectarine aromas, with grapefruit from the Gingin clone Chardonnay and its fine minerality emerging. Balanced, medium weight, and with a lingering palate. This is a very tidy little wine.
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.
