98 points - "Year after year, this storied chardonnay has continued to adapt with the times and the climate, with the 2024 being truly exceptional. Aromas of sliced pears, white nectarines, wet river stones, citrus and a salty mineral edge brought together with flinty reduction. The taut, focused palate offers mouthwatering acidity, with an underlying power waiting to unravel. No malolactic fermentation, which preserves the freshness, making this drinkable now yet with immense cellaring potential. Drink or hold. Screw cap." - Ryan Montgomery (James Suckling)

97 points - "Matured in French puncheons and barriques (30% new) for 11 months. Offered under both screw cap and diam. Tasted under screw cap. A bright green gold. Complex and restrained with aromas of white peach, grilled nuts, flint and subtle oyster shell. The palate is finely tuned and, while there's that typical Mount Mary concentration, it also has a delicacy that makes this appealing. Built to age superbly." - Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)

97 points - "The 2024 Chardonnay, like the Triolet of the same vintage, is unbelievably concentrated and intense, both aromatically and in the mouth. It has notes of crushed nuts and white flowers, stewed green apple, saline acidity and spicy/savory phenolic structure. This is both sophisticated and engaging, long and impressive. It is routinely a brilliant wine, and since 2020, this has shown excellent restraint and composure, tension and complexity. The finish here is gentle, despite the front of the wine being intense, and the impact is one of softness. I like it so much. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap." - Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

96 points - "It may have been a warmer year in the Yarra, yet this is a very tight and fine wine. About 30% new oak. Release date is October 2026. White peach, lemon and lime, cashew, a little biscuit spice and aniseed, with a fair amount of struck match, though it’s not overt or too dominating, just noted. It’s juicy, but also quite savoury, a distinct flinty grip with fine acidity threaded so neatly through the wine, a layer of cashew richness, and a bright and gently saline finish of excellent length and precision, a slight preserved lemon thing carries in the aftertaste. Outstanding." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

Winemaker's Note
Perhaps a little more restrained than the 2023 release, this year's Chardonnay is pretty, delicate and detailed. The nose opens with just a hint of reduction, or struck match, though Mount Mary Chardonnay is typically more exemplary of fruit flavours and vineyard expression than of reductive aromas. It shows characters of lime, pear and stone fruit, along with secondary complexities from extended maturation on lees. On the palate, riper citrus tones lead, along with pear, lychee and green apple. There is a layered complexity to this wine, along with a subtle textural grip from skin-derived phenolics. There is both immediate appeal here and a clear capacity for development in the cellar.
Sam Middleton, Mount Mary Winemaker

Vintage
The weather in November 2023 was relatively dry, allowing for a fairly uninterrupted flowering and fruit set period. Thanks to these favourable conditions, crop levels were pleasingly a little higher than in the previous three years. October and January were particularly wet, while November and December provided some ideal growing conditions, with relatively warm, dry weather. February and March are arguably the most important months of the growing season from a wine quality and stylistic point of view, and in '24, warm and dry weather prevailed through both, accelerating sugar accumulation. Picking decisions became a balancing act between sugar levels, acid degradation and adequate phenolic ripeness.
Sam Middleton

Reviews
Matured in French puncheons and barriques (30% new) for 11 months. Offered under both screw cap and diam. Tasted under screw cap. A bright green gold. Complex and restrained with aromas of white peach, grilled nuts, flint and subtle oyster shell. The palate is finely tuned and, while there's that typical Mount Mary concentration, it also has a delicacy that makes this appealing. Built to age superbly.
97 points, Philip Rich, Halliday Wine

The 2024 Chardonnay, like the Triolet of the same vintage, is unbelievably concentrated and intense, both aromatically and in the mouth. It has notes of crushed nuts and white flowers, stewed green apple, saline acidity and spicy/savory phenolic structure. This is both sophisticated and engaging, long and impressive. It is routinely a brilliant wine, and since 2020, this has shown excellent restraint and composure, tension and complexity. The finish here is gentle, despite the front of the wine being intense, and the impact is one of softness. I like it so much. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.
97+ points, Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate

Technical Details
Alcohol: 13.5%
Oak: French puncheons and barriques (30% new) for 11 months
Closure: Screw cap and Diam