Flowstone Queen of the Earth Chardonnay 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Flowstone Queen of the Earth Chardonnay 2023.

Flowstone Queen of the Earth Chardonnay 2023
$63, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.

The Flowstone wines are firing on all cylinders. This chardonnay is full-bodied, well balanced, complex and well sustained, and has more than a little X-factor too. Yellow peach, pine, cedar and cream characters flow into tonic water, flint, sweet spice and meal. There’s texture, there’s impact, there’s flavour and there’s length. This wine is (very) good now but it will be better again in another couple of years.

Score: 94 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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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