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

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.

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