Stonier

9 June

Stonier is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery — Campbell Mattinson's highest honour.
Under winemaker Julian Grounds, its Pinot Noir and Chardonnay have reached new heights over the past two vintages.

Stonier is one of the oldest wineries on the Mornington Peninsula and also, of late, one of the most exciting. It’s a winery that has never known poor form but even so, its range of wines have gone to new quality levels over the past two years. This elevation in quality is in no small part due to the work of winemaker Julian Grounds, and is startlingly obvious when you taste the 2025 range of Stonier releases. It must also be acknowledged that – for the first time in a couple of decades – Stonier is once again out of “corporate” ownership and is back in the hands of individuals, where it belongs. The people who own and make the wine at Stonier have their own skin in the game. It tastes as if this matters.

The Stonier wines are all grown on Stonier-owned vineyards. They are all about varietal Pinot Noir and varietal Chardonnay. There are a range of single vineyard releases; there are reserve releases, and there are blend-of-vineyard offerings. All of Stonier’s wines excel.

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Article on Stonier: No Stonier Unturned

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Stonier Pinot Noir 2025 is reviewed here.
2025 range of Stonier releases reviewed on The Winefront.

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Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com

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