2022 Leeuwin Estate Chardonnay Art Series Margaret River Australia 750 ml

Scan a list of the top-scoring 2022s in the Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate and you’ll see 97-point names like Kistler’s Kistler Vineyard Chard ($225), Domaine Leflaive’s Chevalier-Montrachet ($2,200), and Coche-Dury’s Meursault Les Genevrières ($2,100).

But standing shoulder-to-shoulder with them is Leeuwin Estate’s 2022 Art Series Chardonnay, one of the world’s great wines. It’s a true collectible from Down Under and a bottle that blossoms with age into liquid treasure. 

Located a stone’s throw from the Indian Ocean in one of the most remote wine regions in the world, Leeuwin Estate has been setting Australia’s white-wine standard for decades. To grasp its importance, consider that Decanter recently staged a retrospective tasting of three decades of this “true classic among Australian Chardonnays.”

Everything that Leeuwin does is geared toward maximizing quality. Yields are kept to a minimum so that small bunches retain tremendously concentrated fruit, and the care that Leeuwin applies to the grapes is in their motto: “Treat ‘em like eggs.” James Halliday, Australia’s leading critic, has called Leeuwin “a class act” that works “with the precision of a Swiss watch.”

In the 2022 vintage, that devotion to quality resulted in a historic Art Series Chardonnay: a 97-point classic that Wine Advocate called "a powerful and statuesque player in the wider footprint of Art Series Chardonnays.”

And it’s only poised to improve: Halliday once noted that older vintages of the Art Series can be “reminiscent of top Meursault.” Praise for Chardonnay doesn’t get any higher than that. This is your chance to claim one of the world’s iconic white wines, one that invites comparisons to the most celebrated and expensive bottles in the world.