Yarra Loch Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2022
- 95
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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There is so much to like about this excellent Yarra Valley Chardonnay. It comes from a season which was quite low cropping, but ultimately, with ideal conditions to produce fruit of intensity and good concentration. It’s a combination of clones, predominantly P58, which probably means nothing but I thought I’d tell you anyway, but with a little of the famous Mendoza making an important contribution. It was all wild fermented and whole bunch pressed before 100% barrel fermentation, with the important contribution of solids to add some textural complexity. It spent 13 months on lees, which has added to that richness and concentration. Has a slightly cheesy, flinty stone fruit aroma, while the palate is intense and densely concentrated, but with that Mendoza acidity providing a vibrant 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.
