Five Vineyard Reserve Chardonnay 2024
$58, 12.3% alcohol, screwcap, Plenty/Victoria.
Flavour, delicious flavour, and a good deal of it. This is a chardonnay that is both very easy to like and dangerously easy to enjoy. It tastes of ripe, grilled peaches, juicy pears, nougat and toast, and the way it bounces through the palate and then extends through the finish is charming, impressive and more-ish all at once. This is a lovely chardonnay. 93 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.
