Best Value Australian Chardonnay: The Past 12 Months

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Written By Campbell Mattinson

This list has been created by pure numbers. As in the score I gave it, calculated against its asking price. Every time I score a chardonnay on this site at 94 pints or higher, I add the Best Australian Chardonnay tag. I took all the wines that have been awarded this tag, over the past 12 months, and ran them through a price-per-point calculator. This list, it’s important to note, is not the same as the Best Australian Chardonnay list itself, which does not factor in price. The list below has the price-per-point or value filter applied.

This list ranks, by a pure calculation, what chardonnay quality costs. Because it’s a straight calculation; there are surprises.

This list will be regularly updated.

Ranked by price per point above 88 · Australian prices

  1. 94 Eminence Chardonnay 2024Eminence · King Valley · Chardonnay $35$5.83/pt
  2. 95 Symons Mornington Peninsula Chardonnay 2024Symons · Mornington Peninsula · Chardonnay $48$6.86/pt
  3. 96 Moppity Emprise Chardonnay 2024Moppity · Tumbarumba · Chardonnay $55$6.88/pt
  4. 95 Briar Ridge Block 7 Chardonnay 2025Briar Ridge · Orange · Chardonnay $50$7.14/pt
  5. 96 Shaw + Smith M3 Chardonnay 2024Shaw & Smith · Adelaide Hills · Chardonnay $58$7.25/pt
  6. 96 Salo Chardonnay 2025Salo · Yarra Valley · Chardonnay $60$7.50/pt
  7. 96 Dr. Edge Tasmania Chardonnay 2023Dr. Edge · Tasmania · Chardonnay $60$7.50/pt
  8. 94 Dappled Appellation Chardonnay 2025Dappled · Yarra Valley · Chardonnay $45$7.50/pt
  9. 94 Coppabella Chardonnay 2025Coppabella · Tumbarumba · Chardonnay $45$7.50/pt
  10. 94 Gentle Folk Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2025Gentle Folk · Adelaide Hills · Chardonnay $45$7.50/pt

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Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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