Marnong Estate Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2024

Bottle of Marnong Estate Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2024.

Marnong Estate Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
$40, 12.8% alcohol, screwcap, Sunbury.

This wine is both complex and refreshing at once. Indeed it’s textural as well, which means that it’s a pretty impressive package all over, especially when you factor in that its white peach, citrus, beeswax, smoked corn and flint flavours have more than enough substance to satisfy. Personally, I would pop this in a cool, dark place and leave it alone for another 18 months or more, because I think that it’s in the process of building to an even more impressive place. But all the signs and sensations are good here, already. Indeed we are in fine wine territory. Control, inherent power, elegance, complexity and length are all well managed and presented. 93 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both The Winefront site (the home of Australia’s best wine reviews) and of Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer since 1987. 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 is a storyteller. He is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic, and in all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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