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 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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