Yering Station Reserve Chardonnay 2019
- 96
- $130
- Drink by: 2023 - 2033
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Clonal influence is important here, with the dominant Mendoza clone supported by two others and contributing to the resulting mouthfeel and flavour profile. The intensity in this reserve has come from the small berries that were a product of a warmer Yarra Valley vintage. The oak regime also plays a key part with a mix of oaks from new to five year old worked in a way that is subtly influential. On the nose a combination of savoury mealy aromas work together. Then into the palate that dry, savoury character is accentuated to good effect. It’s a complex wine that gradually builds in the mouth to a very long palate with a subtle minerality 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.
