Blackstone Paddock Limited Release Margaret River Chardonnay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Blackstone Paddock Limited Release Chardonnay Margaret River 2024.

Blackstone Paddock Limited Release Tasmania Pinot Noir 2024
$20, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.

Twenty bucks for this? No way. I mean, like, no way. This is a really, seriously good chardonnay. And I don’t mean that it’s seriously good for $20. I mean that it’s seriously good, full stop, hands down. It tastes of struck match, white peach, apple, toast, cedar and green pineapple, and while it’s juicy and more-ish it’s also complex and then some. In fact this is so good that it’s almost too good. Those struck match characters are not going to be for everyone. But if you like complex, flinty chardonnay: this is pretty much the bargain chardonnay of the year. 93 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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