Paralian

Paralian is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.
Only the best of Australia’s best wineries are ranked as a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

The key to Paralian is as simple as it is magnificent. Skye Salter and Charlie Seppelt have worked in vineyards and at wineries far and wide, big and small, in Australia and around the world. In the vastness of this experience they’ve honed to a knife edge the ability to know a special vineyard when they see it, or a special block, or a special section of a vineyard, or even a special row. With Paralian then they set out to negotiate access to these special vineyards or to small sections of them, and to capture them in the bottle. Oftentimes these small sections of vineyard had never previously been singled out or bottled with their uniqueness kept intact. At Paralian the best grapes – the best combinations of land and grape – are seen. It’s not rocket science but it takes skill, judgement and nerve to pull it off. Paralian does so unerringly. The Paralian Marmont Vineyard Grenache 2024 and Paralian Chardonnay 2024 are all the proof you could ever need.

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 Mattinson Photography.

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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