Eminence Chardonnay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Eminence Chardonnay 2024.

Eminence Chardonnay 2024
$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

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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