Hutton Reserve Chardonnay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Hutton Reserve Chardonnay 2024.

Hutton Reserve Chardonnay 2024
A$100, 12.9% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.

There’s chardonnay and then there’s chardonnay like this. This is an electrifying white wine with fanfare and fireworks in abundance. It’s flinty and taut, aflame with grapefruit, white peach, citrus and apple flavour, and comes rippled with characters of woodsmoke, pebbles, cedar-spice, fennel and gun smoke. The flint notes here add plenty of drama and flare, but the tension and power of the fruit are what makes this wine so special. This is Margaret River Chardonnay at its extreme best. 97 points – Campbell Mattinson.

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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