Fire Gully Chardonnay 2024
$40, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.
This is a rich chardonnay. It will be too rich for some, and too irresistible for others. It’s buttery, and toasty, and slightly resiny, with peaches-drizzled-with-honey and pine flavours running throughout. It shows a little bit of warmth and a whole lot of generosity. If you like you like. Go forth and tuck in. 92 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
