Schild Estate Old Vine Chardonnay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Schild Estate Old Vine Chardonnay 2024.

Schild Estate Old Vine Chardonnay 2024
$50, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

Intrigue is a good thing in wine, most of the time, and this wine is en example of how it can be put to positive effect. It’s driven by stonefruit flavours – yellow peach and nectarine – with a touch of cedarwood in play too, but the intrigue comes via delicious infusions of toasted hay and yeasty bread-like notes. This wine is juicy and inviting throughout, which is the main thing, but it has those little extras that really make you want to dive in for more. 92 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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