Elanto Chardonnay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Elanto Chardonnay 2024.

Elanto Chardonnay 2024
AU$85, 13.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Mornington Peninsula.

The Elanto vineyard is 10.6 hectares of vines planted at 11,111 vines per hectare at Balnarring on the Mornington Peninsula. This means that the Elanto vineyard has an incredible 117, 777 individual vines growing on it. This 2024 Chardonnay is the second release. It’s made by Sandro Mosele. The 2023 Elanto Chardonnay saw almost no malolactic fermentation. This 2024 release however saw almost 85% malo. I tasted this wine from barrel in its infancy and it was incredibly piercing and intense; the subsequent (softening) malolactic influence is an undoubted positive.

This review is a direct quote from my review on The Winefront site:

“This is seriously good. The intensity of fruit is the thing, and the associated length, though there’s a keen textural element and just plenty of wow factor besides. Yellow peach, citrus, nougat, honeycomb and lemon blossom notes charge thoughout. There’s a lot of fruit, a deal of acidity, and a sizeable serve of oak, but all work together and all feel commanding.” 96 points – Campbell Mattinson.

See more [The Amazing Elanto Vineyard]
See more [Elanto Reviews on The Winefront]

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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 national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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