Brand & Sons Grand Central Chardonnay 2024
$30, 13.0% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.
The 2023 release of a Grand Central Chardonnay was decent if, perhaps, lacking a little in flavour, This 2024 release adds a bit more punch. It tastes of grilled peach, pears, hazelnuts and vanilla, with pine and cedar notes as whispers. There’s both texture and grip to this wine, and satisfactory extension through the finish. It drinks well. 90 points.
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 the highly respected The Winefront site.
Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.
Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.
