Victory Point Chardonnay 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Victory Point Chardonnay 2023.

Victory Point Chardonnay 2023
$60, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.

You can rely on Margaret River chardonnay to deliver flavour but what I really like about this wine is the way it sheets out long through the finish. This is a wine with some extra about it. It tastes of grilled peaches and flint, grapefruit and a combination of pears and apples, with oak-spice notes studded within. But it’s that minerally, tonic-like aspect to the finish that really beguiles. It puts up the spinnaker and heads for the open seas. I suspect too that this wine will be better again in another 12-24 months. 94 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 both The Winefront site (founded in 2002, and the home of Australia’s best Australian wine reviews) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer 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 national 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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