Victoria’s Chardonnay Dream Team Mixed 6-Pack | 6 Iconic Victorian Chardonnays

Six Iconic Victorian Chardonnays. Six Brilliant Producers. Five Great Regions. One Dream Team.

Yarra Valley | Mornington Peninsula | Geelong | Beechworth | Macedon Ranges | Otway Hinterland

If you want to understand just how extraordinary Victorian Chardonnay has become, start here.

We've assembled six seriously exciting Chardonnays from six brilliant producers, covering some of Victoria's greatest cool-climate Chardonnay country.

This isn't an entry-level Chardonnay pack.

This is the Dream Team.

Salo. Gaffy & Neal. Bannockburn. Savaterre. Sentio. Heroes.

From the mineral precision of the Upper Yarra and Mornington Peninsula through to the power of Beechworth, the distinctive soils of Geelong, the cool Macedon Ranges and the emerging Otway Hinterland.

Six bottles. Six producers. Six completely different expressions of world-class Victorian Chardonnay.

Combined RRP $477

2025 Salo Chardonnay – Yarra Valley

RRP $55 | 96+ Halliday | 96 Campbell Mattinson | 96 The R Review 

What a way to start.

Salo is the Chardonnay side project of two seriously talented Yarra Valley winemakers, Steve Flamsteed and Dave Mackintosh.

The 2025 comes from the Full Moon Vineyard at Gladysdale in the Upper Yarra, planted on red and brown volcanic soils. The fruit was whole-bunch pressed, wild fermented in seasoned puncheons and partially put through malolactic fermentation.

Halliday's Philip Rich awarded it:

96+ POINTS

while Campbell Mattinson gave it 96 points, describing a beautifully harmonious Chardonnay built around white peach, cream, preserved lemon and honeysuckle.

Expect nectarine, citrus peel, flint and subtle marine characters, with gentle creaminess followed by a long, chalky, tensile finish.

Upper Yarra Chardonnay at its best.

2025 Gaffy & Neal The Peninsula Chardonnay – Mornington Peninsula

RRP $75 | 98 Jeremy Oliver | 97 Tim White | 96 Halliday | 96 The R Review

This is one of the Chardonnay projects we're most excited about in Australia right now.

The collaboration between Darrin Gaffy and Doug Neal is tiny and completely Chardonnay focused.

And The Peninsula is the serious stuff.

The 2025 is loaded with lime, white nectarine and grilled grapefruit, salty sea air and spicy citrus-inflected oak.

Then comes a palate that's:

Tightly coiled. Powerful. Creamy. Mineral. Seriously long.

Gaffy & Neal themselves say:

“This is as close as we have come to perfection thus far.”

That's a big statement.

But taste the wine and you'll understand the excitement.

This is serious Mornington Peninsula Chardonnay.

2025 Bannockburn Chardonnay – Geelong

RRP $75 | 96+ Halliday | 96 Wine Front

Now we move to one of the great names of Victorian Chardonnay.

Bannockburn.

Bannockburn has been producing Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from its distinctive Geelong vineyards for decades, developing a style with genuine personality.

These aren't anonymous, technically perfect Chardonnays.

They taste like Bannockburn.

There's typically richness and texture, but also citrus, stone fruit, savouriness, mineral character and serious structure.

This is Chardonnay that can be incredibly attractive young but also has the architecture to develop beautifully in bottle.

A benchmark Victorian producer and an essential inclusion in the Dream Team.

2024 Savaterre Chardonnay – Beechworth

RRP $120 | 97 Halliday | 97 Campbell Mattinson | 96+ Wine Front

One of Australia's great Chardonnays. Full stop.

This is the heavyweight of the pack.

The 2024 Savaterre Chardonnay comes from Keppell Smith's mature, close-planted Beechworth vineyard and was produced from a tiny crop in an exceptional season.

And the reviews are enormous.

97 POINTS – HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION

97 POINTS – CAMPBELL MATTINSON

96+ POINTS – THE WINE FRONT

Expect white flowers, lime blossom, white nectarine, pink grapefruit, toasted hazelnut, beeswax, sandalwood and subtle flint.

The palate is powerful and concentrated, yet there's extraordinary acidity, precision and length holding everything together.

Power without heaviness.

Concentration without sacrificing finesse.

Keppell Smith believes the wine can age beautifully for:

20 YEARS.

This isn't simply one of the best wines in the pack.

It's one of the great Chardonnay names in Australia.

2023 Sentio Captain's Creek Vineyard Chardonnay – Macedon Ranges

RRP $67 | 95 points Halliday Wine Companion 

Then we get to one of my favourite emerging Chardonnay stories.

Sentio.

Chris Catlow has developed a serious following for Chardonnay, making beautifully detailed wines from some fascinating Victorian sites.

The Captain's Creek Vineyard Chardonnay shows a slightly fleshier, more generous side of Sentio while retaining the precision and structure that makes these wines so compelling. James Suckling specifically noted its more fleshy, mid-weighted personality compared with the typically skeletal Sentio style.

Think:

White peach. Citrus. Stone fruit. Mineral. Savoury oak. Fine acidity.

There's generosity through the middle, but everything remains beautifully controlled.

Sentio is a name every serious Victorian Chardonnay drinker should have on their radar.

And this is a brilliant bottle with which to understand why.

2024 Heroes Original Vineyard Chardonnay – Otway Hinterland

RRP $75 | 96 Points Halliday

And we finish with one of Victoria's most exciting emerging producers.

Heroes Vineyard.

Not Anti-Hero.

Not purchased fruit.

This is the Original Heroes Vineyard Chardonnay.

The 2024 received:

96 POINTS – HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION

Philip Rich highlighted its white nectarine, quince, beeswax and grilled nuts, along with the wine's genuine weight, intensity and fine line of acidity.

The vineyard sits in the remarkably cool Otway Hinterland, with sandstone, siltstone and sandy clay soils.

And the numbers are extraordinary.

Fruit was harvested at just:

1kg PER VINE

before whole-bunch pressing and wild fermentation in French oak.

It then spent ten months in:

100% second-fill French oak.

No new oak required.

Total production?

ONLY 90 CASES.

Halliday's Philip Rich said he was “blown away by the entire range of 2024s” from Heroes.

Once people discover Heroes, these tiny-production wines aren't going to become easier to find.

Five Regions. Six Brilliant Producers.

This is what makes the pack so fascinating.

You're travelling through some of Victoria's greatest Chardonnay country:

Yarra Valley

Salo

Mornington Peninsula

Gaffy & Neal

Geelong

Bannockburn

Beechworth

Savaterre

Macedon Ranges

Sentio

Otway Hinterland

Heroes Vineyard

And each wine brings something completely different.

Citrus

White peach & nectarine

Flint & mineral drive

Saline freshness

Hazelnut & grilled nuts

White flowers

Beautifully integrated French oak

Serious cool-climate acidity

Texture, power and length

Victoria's Chardonnay Dream Team

1 x 2025 Salo Chardonnay

Yarra Valley | RRP $55 | 96+ Halliday | 96 Campbell Mattinson | 96 The R Review

1 x 2025 Gaffy & Neal The Peninsula Chardonnay

Mornington Peninsula | RRP $75 | 98 Jeremy Oliver | 97 Tim White | 96 Halliday | 96 The R Review

1 x 2025 Bannockburn Chardonnay

Geelong | RRP $75 | 96+ Halliday | 96 Wine Front 

1 x 2024 Savaterre Chardonnay

Beechworth | RRP $120 | 97 Halliday | 97 Campbell Mattinson | 96+ Wine Front

1 x 2023 Sentio Captain's Creek Vineyard Chardonnay

Macedon Ranges | RRP $67 - 95 Halliday 

1 x 2024 Heroes Original Vineyard Chardonnay

Otway Hinterland | RRP $75 | 96 Halliday

TOTAL RRP $477

Why We Love This Pack

Australian Chardonnay is in an extraordinary place right now.

And Victoria might just be leading the charge.

Look at this line-up:

Salo.

Gaffy & Neal.

Bannockburn.

Savaterre.

Sentio.

Heroes.

There isn't a passenger.

You've got established benchmarks sitting alongside some of the most exciting emerging Chardonnay producers in the country.

You've got tiny-production vineyard wines.

Wild fermentation.

Old and mature vineyards.

Volcanic soils.

Sandstone and clay.

Cool maritime vineyards.

High-country sites.

And some enormous critic scores.

97 Halliday.

97 Campbell Mattinson.

96+ Halliday.

96 Halliday.

96+ Wine Front.

But scores only tell part of the story.

The real attraction is opening these six bottles side by side.

Get six decent glasses and you have one hell of a Victorian Chardonnay tasting.

Move from the Upper Yarra to Mornington Peninsula, Geelong, Beechworth, Macedon Ranges and finally the Otway Hinterland.

Taste how Chardonnay changes with site.

How acidity changes.

How texture changes.

How oak changes.

How fruit expression changes.

That's what makes this pack so exciting.

Six Iconic Victorian Chardonnays.

Six Brilliant Producers.

Combined RRP $477.

Victoria's Chardonnay Dream Team.

👉 If serious Australian Chardonnay is your thing, this is the six-pack I'd want. Drink them individually or put all six on the table for an absolutely cracking Victorian Chardonnay tasting. Either way, this is some serious Chardonnay firepower in one box.