Hirsch Hill Toolangi Chardonnay 2024
$45, 12.7% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley.
This chardonnay is a picture of elegance and yet, at the same time, it delivers sound, satisfying flavour. It tastes of pears, cooked apples, stonefruit and wheat, a slight clip of cerdarwood oak helping to tie it all together. There’s a juiciness to the fruit here, and a svelte creaminess to the texture. It’s very easy to enjoy. 91 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
