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, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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