Giant Steps Applejack Chardonnay 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Giant Steps Applejack Chardonnay 2025.

Giant Steps Applejack Chardonnay 2025
AU$95, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley.

I’m in the process of reviewing all the single vineyard [2025 Giant Steps – Winefront] releases but I thought that I’d step out of that process and sing from the rooftops about this Applejack Chardonnay 2025.

It’s difficult to imagine a more perfect Yarra Valley Chardonnay. It’s just simply gorgeous. It’s pure, silken, shot-through with flavour, tense, whispered with flint and just so wonderfully persistent. There’s an oyster-shell element to this; it feels highly controlled and itching to go wild at the same time. It’s a party in a suit, waiting for the formalities to be over. Give it a couple of years in the cellar and it will be fundamentally great. 96 points – Campbell Mattinson.

See more, Read the full history of this vineyard: [Giant Steps Applejack – The Real First Vintage].

 
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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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