The Lane Vineyard Heritage Chardonnay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of The Lane Vineyard Heritage Chardonnay 2024.

The Lane Vineyard Heritage Chardonnay 2024
$125, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

Fitter, stronger, longer. This is how you make elite chardonnay, and this is how this wine presents. It’s fresh, it’s flavoursome, it makes complexity look easy and it soars elaborately through the finish. You cannot ask for more. White peach, pear, steel, chalk, mineral and cedar notes combine with grilled nectarine and grapefruit. Everything here tastes gorgeous, and the finish sets the spinnaker up. 95+ 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 the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent 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, who is 100% independent, 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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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