Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Geelong
Variety: Chardonnay
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2025
The Wine
Few names carry as much weight in Australian Chardonnay as Bannockburn. Established by Stuart Hooper in 1974, the estate has been instrumental in defining the identity of Geelong and remains one of the country's most respected producers.
The Estate Chardonnay is sourced from a combination of the Olive Tree Hill, Stuart Block and Winery Block vineyards, planted on the region's distinctive volcanic and limestone-influenced soils. These mature vineyards consistently deliver fruit of concentration, natural acidity and site character.
Fruit is hand-picked and whole-bunch pressed before wild fermentation in French oak barrels. The wine undergoes full malolactic fermentation and extended lees ageing, with a modest proportion of new oak supporting the fruit rather than dominating it. Bannockburn's philosophy has always been to produce wines of structure and longevity, and Chardonnay remains one of the estate's greatest strengths.
The 2025 vintage continues a remarkable run of releases, delivering the tension, texture and mineral drive that have become synonymous with this label.
Cellared Says
Bannockburn Chardonnay is one of Australia's great white wine benchmarks. Every release seems to find that sweet spot between power and precision, and it remains one of the easiest wines in the country to buy with complete confidence. The entry wines have genuine uplift this year. Brilliant.
Reviews
"There are yellow stone fruits characters here, and an array of sweet spice notes, but it’s the flesh, the rush and the juice of grapefruit and ripe pear flavours that both dominate and seduce. This wine really does make you dive quickly in for more. There’s a subtle smokiness, some tonic and mineral-like notes, and an especially noticeable (extra) linger to the finish. This is one of those wines where the acidity itself feels flushed with flavour. The aftertaste then adds some pebble-stone characters, just because it can. What a wine."
96 points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Geelong
Variety: Chardonnay
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2025
The Wine
Few names carry as much weight in Australian Chardonnay as Bannockburn. Established by Stuart Hooper in 1974, the estate has been instrumental in defining the identity of Geelong and remains one of the country's most respected producers.
The Estate Chardonnay is sourced from a combination of the Olive Tree Hill, Stuart Block and Winery Block vineyards, planted on the region's distinctive volcanic and limestone-influenced soils. These mature vineyards consistently deliver fruit of concentration, natural acidity and site character.
Fruit is hand-picked and whole-bunch pressed before wild fermentation in French oak barrels. The wine undergoes full malolactic fermentation and extended lees ageing, with a modest proportion of new oak supporting the fruit rather than dominating it. Bannockburn's philosophy has always been to produce wines of structure and longevity, and Chardonnay remains one of the estate's greatest strengths.
The 2025 vintage continues a remarkable run of releases, delivering the tension, texture and mineral drive that have become synonymous with this label.
Cellared Says
Bannockburn Chardonnay is one of Australia's great white wine benchmarks. Every release seems to find that sweet spot between power and precision, and it remains one of the easiest wines in the country to buy with complete confidence. The entry wines have genuine uplift this year. Brilliant.
Reviews
"There are yellow stone fruits characters here, and an array of sweet spice notes, but it’s the flesh, the rush and the juice of grapefruit and ripe pear flavours that both dominate and seduce. This wine really does make you dive quickly in for more. There’s a subtle smokiness, some tonic and mineral-like notes, and an especially noticeable (extra) linger to the finish. This is one of those wines where the acidity itself feels flushed with flavour. The aftertaste then adds some pebble-stone characters, just because it can. What a wine."
96 points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
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