Scotsburn Ancient Sea Chardonnay 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Scotsburn Ancient Sea Chardonnay 2025.

Scotsburn Ancient Sea Chardonnay 2025
AU$56, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Ballarat.

Grown on the Robson block, next door to the home Scotsburn vineyard. The Robson block was planted in the mid-1990s into the remnant soils of Ordovician-period seabeds.

This wine is just so gorgeously tip-top. It unfurls slowly, granted, though from the outset a) the quality is abundantly clear and b) there’s a delicious swish of pear-and-peach flavour. What comes after though is really quite exciting. We taste the sea, we taste smoked wood, we feel the texture of wet kelp, and we experience a linger of flavour through the aftertaste that borders on the mesmerising. We have a live one here.

95 points – Campbell Mattinson.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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