Flowstone Queen of the Earth Sauvignon Blanc 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Flowstone Queen of the Earth Sauvignon Blanc 2023
$49, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.

There’s restraint to this wine, elegance too, but it builds power nicely as it travels through the palate and the finish, then, is both structured and well prosecuted. This sauvignon blanc really shows how it’s done. It tastes of stonefruit, ginger, slate, woodsmoke and cream, with whispers of lemongrass too, but the wine’s slatey dryness is in many ways its signature attribute. This is an impeccable white wine. 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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