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

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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