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

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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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