Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay 2024.

Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay 2024
$130, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.

Talk about laying down the law. Talk about showing the chardonnay world how it’s done. This chardonnay is fresh, and powerful, and intense with fruit but then it’s all mineral and candy and flint and smoke from there. It’s feels both pure and sordid; it’s a baby face on a muscular body. It’s brilliant. It puts on a show and then soars through the finish, prosecuting all of its arguments and ideas to the fullest. You won't find a better chardonnay this year. 97 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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