Best Value Yarra Valley Chardonnay

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Written By Campbell Mattinson

This list has been created by pure numbers. I simply set the parameters of “Yarra Valley” and “Chardonnay” and asked for a list of the best price-per-points wines on the site, taken from all reviews across the past two years. The result has not been doctored in any way; the numbers were crunched, and this is the result. Quality is key here, price is key too: both quality and price are paramount. The top two wines cost $28 and $30, the ninth wine costs $100, but the $100 wine is still relevant to the value equation because it scored so high.

This is an unusual list, because the process of calculation is so pure.

This list will be regularly updated.

Ranked by price per point above 88 · Australian prices

  1. 94 Cat & Frank Chardonnay 2024Cat & Frank · Yarra Valley · Chardonnay $30$5.00/pt
  2. 93 De Bortoli The Estate Vineyard Chardonnay 2024De Bortoli · Yarra Valley · Chardonnay $28$5.60/pt
  3. 95 Dappled Appellation Chardonnay 2024Dappled · Yarra Valley · Chardonnay $45$6.43/pt
  4. 96 Salo Chardonnay 2025Salo · Yarra Valley · Chardonnay $60$7.50/pt
  5. 94 Dappled Appellation Chardonnay 2025Dappled · Yarra Valley · Chardonnay $45$7.50/pt
  6. 95 Salo Chardonnay 2023Salo · Yarra Valley · Chardonnay $55$7.86/pt
  7. 96 Bicknell FC Applecross Chardonnay 2025Bicknell FC · Yarra Valley · Chardonnay $65$8.13/pt
  8. 94 Toolangi Pauls Lane Chardonnay 2024Toolangi · Yarra Valley · Chardonnay $50$8.33/pt
  9. 97 Oakridge 864 Funder & Diamond Chardonnay 2022Oakridge · Yarra Valley · Chardonnay $100$11.11/pt
  10. 92+ e’Stellar Estate Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2025e’Stellar Estate · Yarra Valley · Chardonnay $45$11.25/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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