Eminence Chardonnay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Eminence Chardonnay 2024.

Eminence Chardonnay 2024
AU$35, 12.6% alcohol, DIAM cork, Whitlands High Plateau/King Valley.

This is grown on one of – if not the – highest altitude vineyards in Victoria. It’s not cool climate, it’s cold climate. It’s a wine that benefits greatly from the chance to breathe, so a stint in a decanter is advised. From there, it’s an absolute treat of a wine, fine-boned and yet well flavoured, delicate, intricate, persistent and more. It tastes of apples and pears, citrus and oatmeal, lemon blossoms and the merest whisper of honey. But for all of its charms it’s the textural lilt through the finish which really beguiles. This is an understated chardonnay and a beautiful one.

94 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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