Five Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
$32, 12.6% alcohol, screwcap, Plenty/Port Phillip/Victoria.
Up-front this presents an attractive mix of pear, citrus, cedar and cream-like flavours, though the real seduction is in the grilled peach characters running through the finish. This is a tasty chardonnay, satisfying and well styled, that is drinking a treat right now but, should you wish, could also be cellared for the next handful or so years. 91 points.
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.
