Andrew Caillard MW 100 points

“Pale medium colour. Exquisite pure grapefruit, apricot, nectarine aromas with 
underlying marzipan/ flinty notes. Superbly balanced with grapefruit, lime bitters, 
lemon pastille, nectarine fruits, fine slinky/ chalky textures, underlying grilled nut/ tonic 
water notes, lovely mid-palate viscosity/ weight and fresh linear and crisp acidity. 
Ethereal, creamy, and complex with slight al-dente texture lengthening the palate. 
Absolutely to die for. A magical experience. Beautiful and perfect to drink now but will 
hold and evolve. Drink now – 2038+ 13.5% alc” 
 
“The 2024 Estate Vineyard Chardonnay leads with walnuts and curry leaf, white 
pepper and wet chalk, pineapple, almond meal and pink grapefruit. It is both fresh and 
savory, and a thrust of powerful fruit and reduction in concert soar across the palate. 
The fruit flavors—nutty and citrus-laden, thanks to the P58 Chardonnay clone grown 
here on the gravel clay soils of the Victorian Alp foothills—linger long through the finish 
and allow the dissection of flavor, impact and texture to occur over time. This is a 
remarkable wine, one of incisive focus and attractive width of texture. It has few peers 
in its execution of style. This vintage is decidedly savory; its aperture of focus zeroed 
right in on the tension between the acidity, the reduction, the intensely saturated fruit 
and the phenolic structure. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.” Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate – 99 points 

Giaconda vineyard was established by Rick Kinzbrunner, a mechanical engineer who became interested in wine in the early 1970's. Rick then spent the next ten years working in the industry, travelling and following his passion for wine. After a brief stint in New Zealand, he studied at Davis University in California and worked at some of the most respected wineries in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys (namely Stag's Leap, Simi and Matanzas Creek). In Europe he worked for the Moueix group in Bordeaux, co-owner of the fabled Chateau Petrus. After returning to Australia in 1980 to take up a position as assistant winemaker at Brown Brothers in Milawa,

Rick purchased land in the nearby Beechworth wine region - at the foothills of the beautiful North-East Victorian Alps. Planting commenced in 1982 and the property is now devoted solely to Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Shiraz. A separate planting of Nebbiolo has also been established close to the Beechworth township at Red Hill. Total area under vines at the Giaconda Estate Vineyard is now 4 hectares. Annual wine production is approximately 2,500 dozen bottles. Rick’s son Nathan Kinzbrunner also works full time at Giaconda and has done so since the 2007 vintage. Since 2018 we are now fully certified organic by the Bio Dynamic Research Institute (BDRI).

“Following on from the La Niña trinity of 2021-2023 was always going to be a hard gig. 
Then just when you think you have seen it all, along comes the 2024 chardonnay. 
Simply stunning. Words cannot do justice to this incredible release of the Estate 
Vineyard chardonnay. If not the very best, it certainly sits confidently on the podium 
alongside the likes of 1996, 2010 and 2021!” Winery notes: