Tolpuddle Vineyard Chardonnay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Tolpuddle Vineyard Chardonnay 2024.

Tolpuddle Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
$100, 13.0% alcohol, screwcap, Tasmania.

Tolpuddle is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

This release is strikingly intense, strikingly long, strikingly textural and strikingly flinty. It has flavours and scents flying here there and everywhere. Grapefruit, steel, struck matches, garden mint, grilled peaches, smoke and preserved lemon characters drive through the palate with authority. It’s polished and harmonious but everything is emphatic here. It’s a super release. 96 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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