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Best’s Great Western Chardonnay 2025
$25.00
Here’s a charming, mouthfilling and complex chardonnay with layers of fruit and creamy texture. Ripe white peach, nectarine and lemony fruit backed by notes of butterscotch, nougat and faintly toasty vanilla oak are deftly matched in a medium-weight wine of pristine fruit and flavour. Wrapped in a gentle but mouthwatering acidity, it’s exceptional value and will find many a friend amongst those who shy from the modern fruit-stripped variant of this style. Give it a year or two – and perhaps you can afford to do this at its very welcoming price – and you’ll have a rounder, juicier wine of some distinction.
Vintage
2025
Peak years to drink
2030 -
Jeremy's score
92 / 100
Seal type
Screw top
Best's Great Western Chardonnay
Grampians Great Western
Price Range at Release: $20-$29
Vintage: 2025
Alc %: 13.0
$ Rel: 25
Here's a charming, mouthfilling and complex chardonnay with layers of fruit and creamy texture. Ripe white peach, nectarine and lemony fruit backed by notes of butterscotch, nougat and faintly toasty vanilla oak are deftly matched in a medium-weight wine of pristine fruit and flavour. Wrapped in a gentle but mouthwatering acidity, it's exceptional value and will find many a friend amongst those who shy from the modern fruit-stripped variant of this style. Give it a year or two - and perhaps you can afford to do this at its very welcoming price - and you'll have a rounder, juicier wine of some distinction.
Last Date Tasted: 04/07/2026
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Vintage
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Score/100
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Score/20
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Year To Drink
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2025
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92 | 17.7 | 2030-2033+  | Buy it
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2014
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90 | 17.0 | 2019-2022+  |
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2012
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89 | 16.8 | 2017-2020 |
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2011
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91 | 17.6 | 2013-2016 |
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2010
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87 | 16.3 | 2012-2015 |
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2009
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89 | 16.7 | 2011-2014+ |
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2008
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82 | 15.0 | 2010-2013 |
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2007
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88 | 16.4 | 2009-2012+ |
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2005
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89 | 16.7 | 2007-2010+ |
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2003
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87 | 16.2 | 2005-2008 |
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2001
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92 | 17.8 | 2006-2009 |
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2000
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84 | 15.3 | 2002-2005 |
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1998
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86 | 15.8 | 2003-2006 |
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1997
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88 | 16.5 | 2002-2005 |
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1996
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89 | 16.7 | 1998-2001 |
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1995
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93 | 18.1 | 2003-2007 |
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1994
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94 | 18.4 | 2006-2014 |
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1993
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87 | 16.0 | 1998-2001 |
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1992
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88 | 16.6 | 1997-2000 |
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1991
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92 | 17.9 | 1999-2003+ |
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1990
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91 | 17.5 | 1998-2002+ |
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1990
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89 | 16.8 | 1998-2002 |
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1989
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93 | 18.0 | 1997-2001+ |
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1986
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88 | 16.6 | 1994-1998+ |
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Winery
Best's Great Western
An icon in Australian wine, BestŐs is an historic winery in western Victoria whose shirazes rate among AustraliaŐs finest. Typical Great Western in style, they're steeped in fruit, laced with black pepper and exotic spices, but achieve a depth of fruit, strength and structure without appearing ham-fisted or clunky. The Bin No. '0' and Thomson Family Reserve Shirazes from 2014 reflect the intensity and harmony of this excellent vintage and will both cellar for the long term. Like several others from this region and from the nearby Henty area, Best's pristine and long-living Riesling continues to improve in its traditional off-dry style.
Chief Executive(s):
Ben Thomson
Winemaker:
Simon Fennell
Viticulturist:
Ben Thomson
Production Dozen:
20000
Tonnes Processed:
500
White Wines
Red Wines
Bin No. '0' Shiraz >Bin No. 1 Shiraz >Cabernet Sauvignon >F.H.T Shiraz >Hamill Cabernet Sauvignon >
Kindred Spirits Merlot
LSV Shiraz (Formerly Shiraz Viognier) >Merlot >Old Clone Pinot Noir
Old Vine Pinot Meunier >Pinot Meunier Pinot Noir >Pinot Noir >Thomson Family Reserve Shiraz >Young Vine Pinot Meunier >
Address:
111 Bests Road , Great Western , Victoria 3374 Australia
Cellar Door Open Hours:
7 days, Mon - Sat & Public Holidays 10am - 5pm, Sun 11am - 4pm, Closed Christmas Day
Principal Wine Region:
Great Western, Grampians
Telephone:
(03) 5356 2250
Facsimile:
(03) 5356 2430
Website:
Email:
