Yelland and Papps Single Vineyard Roussanne 2024
- 95
- $49
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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I’ve always liked the way these guys treat this Rhône-style variety. It’s a wine that offers complexity and intensity with a vibrant and appealing mouthfeel. It was basket pressed into new and neutral oak for natural fermentation, and then regular lees stirring over 8 months has allowed the fruit and the wine to build textural complexity. In the end, it was a barrel selection of the best barrels to make up the wine. There’s a lemony, creamy character here with a fine, subtle oak infusion. A nice crisp acidity keeps it tight and fine, yet that brilliantly rich texture emerges and carries effortlessly through to a long 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.
