The Lane Vineyard Estate Chardonnay 2024
$60, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This wine lines ‘em up and slams it straight through the goals. It’s absolutely tip-top beautiful in the most emphatic, clear, and delicious of ways. It tastes of grilled peach, cedar, sweet spice and flint, and every inch of its flavour has a glitter to it. It’s a jewel of a wine. 95 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.
