Gioiello Old Hill Chardonnay 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Gioiello Old Hill Chardonnay 2025.

Gioiello Old Hill Chardonnay 2025
$40, 13.1% alcohol, screwcap, Upper Goulburn.

This is a sophisticated and sure-footed chardonnay with excellent length and overall complexity. It tastes of nuts, grilled peach, sweet cedar and apricot kernels, with flint and mineral notes as highlights. There’s texture to this wine too but it’s not over the top; it’s just enough to give the wine a complex creaminess. This wine is excellent now but I wouldn’t be surprised if it scores even high with a little more bottle age. 93+ 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 the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist 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 prized 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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