Star Lane Chardonnay 2025
AU$65, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Beechworth.
Classic peach and pear flavours combine with inflections of stone, umami, toast, nougat, hay and mango skins. This wine is complex, interesting, well-powered and well sustained. It has good body, good dryness, genuine push to the palate in general but then an elegant, honed exit. It’s nice work all around and, of course, lovely drinking. 93 points – 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
