Chardonnay

Chardonnay has been through a lot. It peaked hard in the nineties, got cancelled in the early 2000s by anyone who'd had one too many tropical fruit-bomb blasts from a cask, and then quietly staged one of the great comeback stories in wine history. Today's Chardonnay is different. Better. More interesting. And there are 1,160 of them on Plonk.

The spectrum runs from lean, mineral, Chablis-adjacent styles that could fool a Burgundy snob, all the way through to rich, complex, oak-kissed expressions from Margaret River and the Yarra Valley that are genuinely worth laying down. The grape is endlessly versatile, which is exactly why it's planted everywhere and why winemakers keep obsessing over it.

Buy by the case and work out which style is yours. A$15 flat delivery Australia-wide, so you can experiment without the logistics getting expensive.