Flowstone Queen of the Earth Chardonnay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Flowstone Queen of the Earth Chardonnay 2024.

Flowstone Queen of the Earth Chardonnay 2024
$63, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.

This is both distinctive and more-ish. It had me at hello but then it kept me engaged as well. It tastes of peach, flint, crushed fennel, grapefruit and cedar, though there’s a cleansing flush of citrus too and intriguing notes of apricot kernel and peach pip. This is a wine to sit on and savour. It strikes you up front, it’s long through the finish, it’s elegant in general and yet flavour-wise it hosts a whole community of goings on. 95 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 both The Winefront site (founded in 2002, and the home of Australia’s best Australian wine reviews) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer 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 national 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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