Place of Changing Winds Larderdark Chardonnay 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Place of Changing Winds Larderdark Chardonnay 2023.

Place of Changing Winds Larderdark Chardonnay 2023
$160, 13% alcohol, DIAM cork, Macedon Ranges.

If this wine was a boxer you’d take one look at it sparring and think: heaven help the person who stands in the way of that right hand. It’s a muscular, taut, ripped chardonnay of genuine power and depth, and while it’s reticent for now, it’s clear that gravity lives here. It tastes of rocks, stone fruits, hay, smoke, brine and chalk, and once it’s had time to settle and assess it’s going to contend with the best of them. 95 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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