Eastern Peake Two Mile Hill Chardonnay 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Eastern Peake Two Mile Hill Chardonnay 2023.

Eastern Peake Two Mile Hill Chardonnay 2023
$75, 12.6% alcohol, DIAM cork, Ballarat.

Admittedly this wine needs another couple of years in the cellar, preferably, but the quality on offer here is superb. It’s a fleshy chardonnay with lemon curd, nectarine., custard powder and apple flavours layered into nuts, butter, cedar and sprays of salt-splashed herbs. It’s cutting and generous at once; it stops to smell the white flowers, and roasting nuts, but still manages to drill on through to a long finish. I’m saying that another 2-3 years in the bottle is necessary to start seeing it at its best but really, 5+ years wouldn’t hurt. 95 points.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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