95+ Points - Campbell Mattinson
Garagiste is one of Australia's brightest cool-climate producers, created by Barnaby Flanders back in 2006. Crafting an impressive range of small-batch Mornington Peninsula Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, Garagiste has a focus on expressing the single-sites and sub-regions of the Peninsula.
This 2025 Garagiste Merricks Chardonnay is another ultra impressive Mornington Peninsula Chardonnay made from grapes grown on the 28 year old Merricks vineyard. Opening with lifted aromatics of citrus and stone fruit, the palate is intensely flavoured with pristine cool-climate fruit, lively acidity and lovely fleshiness throughout. Another classy Garagiste Chardonnay release that is deserving of the high praise it is already receiving.
"95+ Points. This is a wine of flavour, tension, complexity and length, and on all those words I would place an underline. It tastes of flint, grilled peach, grapefruit, preserved lemon and smoked cedar, with brine, hay and pebble-like characters ricocheting through the finish. It’s brilliant. If ever you wanted evidence that Garagiste is one of Australia’s best producers, this is it.”- Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front.
