Dappled Appellation Chardonnay 2024
$45, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley.
Wonderful wine from the first sip to the last. Complex. flinty, driven by grapefruit, peach and pear, and then tangy and smoky through the finish, with no shortages of umami highlights. It puts on a show but it’s a wine of substance, line and persistence. It makes classic schardonnay look easy. 95 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.
