Murdoch Hills The Rocket Chardonnay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Murdoch Hills The Rocket Chardonnay 2024.

Murdoch Hills The Rocket Chardonnay 2024
AU$93, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

Single vineyard release from the Lenswood sub-region of the Adelaide Hills. This wine is fast becoming one of Australia’s best chardonnays and, in the case of this specific release, most certainly is.

Flinty and flat-out good. White peach, lactose, pear, white flowers and struck match notes come charging through the palate in the most convincing and authoritative fashion. It's not heavy but it's powerful, impressive and ultimately sensationally long. Brine and dried herb notes emerge as it breathes, though whatever the individual flavours, the effect stays the same. This is top-quality chardonnay from start to finish. 96 points – Campbell Mattinson.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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 national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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