96 Points - Jeni Port
Port Phillip Estate's Red Hill vineyard is located on the volcanic soils of Victoria's Mornington Peninsula; a region well-known for producing some of Australia's finest premium Chardonnay.
The newly released 2024 Port Phillip Estate Red Hill Chardonnay is another vibrant and beautifully structured example, opening with lively citrus notes of orange, and lemon peel on the nose. The palate is pure, intense and taut, with powerful lemon and white stone fruit flavours driving the long palate into a piercing and chalky finish.
"96 Points. Sub-regional expression is definitely a feature of this stunning Red Hill Chardonnay. The higher, cooler Red Hill area promotes a more pronounced structure and firmness which is accentuated more in a cool year like ’24. Acidity is a key factor in this wine, something that will see it age particularly well. Then there is the quality of the fruit and an intriguing layer of savouriness that adds up to one mighty exciting wine. A touch of almond skin savouriness is hinted at in a bouquet of stone fruits, honeydew melon, pear, citrus, grapefruit pith., lime peel and lemon balm. It arrives with an effortless ease, elegant and beautifully focused with a clean textural flow studded in lemon peel tartness. Irresistible. $42. Drink: 2025 - 2042"- Jeni Port, Wine Pilot.
"94 Points. The old Collina Rossa. A little bit more flavour here than the 2024 Balnarring, though they are both quite understated wines this vintage. White peach but mainly citrus, almond, oatmeal and spice. Medium-bodied, tangy and grapefruity, a subtle gloss to texture, though manly tight and flinty with a lemon and grapefruit finish of good length, some lemon peel in the aftertaste. Good wine. Needs some time to settle in though. Tasted: May25 13.5% alc. $42. Screwcap Drink: 2026 - 2034+"- Gary Walsh, The Wine Front.
