Xanadu Vinework Chenin Blanc 2025
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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Another example of how this variety can manifest itself in so many different regions, producing wines of subtle differences, but always with impressive quality. In this case, the wine’s been worked with wild yeasts and some older barrel influence with regular lees stirring. So you’re getting Chenin Blanc with the natural vibrant acidity offset and balanced with some supple palate richness coming from the time on lees. On the nose, there’s a spicy, lemony, zesty character, and then the palate reveals more citrusy, slightly nutty characters but with a subtle saline lift on the 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.
