Bradley Hutton Wildberry Chardonnay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Bradley Hutton Wildberry Chardonnay 2024.

Bradley Hutton Wildberry Chardonnay 2024
$120, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.

This is an elegant release with impressive power through the back palate and exceptional persistence through the finish. It’s also the kind of wine that makes complexity look easy, which is always a sign of high quality. It’s a flinty wine with grapefruit, peach, sweet cedar and brine characters riffing throughout. Stone, lemonade and general mineral characters dart through the finish as well. This wine has a lot up its sleeve, and/or a lot still tucked in tight. But it’s abundantly clear that its future sits on the bright side of wonderful. It does become all the components here are of killer quality. 96 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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