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 post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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 national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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