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.
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.
