Deep Woods Estate Hillside Chardonnay 2025
AU$25, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.
Banger. Great value. Flavoursome and juicy and well-extended and just plain delicious. Flavours of grapefruit, peach and toast but it’s the generosity, extension through the finish, and all-round more-ishness that seal the deal here. This is one of the buys of the year.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
