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 Margaret River Chardonnay 2024
AU$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.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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