De Bortoli The Estate Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
$28, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley.
Attractive Yarra Valley Chardonnay; perfect for drinking. Flavours of grapefruit, pear, peach, lemonade and tonic water run into cedar and spice-splashed vanilla. It’s nicely weighted, well polished, fresh and juicy with fruit – and comes served with the texture and length to seduce. 93 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.
