Buttery Chardonnay: Mattinson’s Guide To

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Good Buttery Chardonnay is hard to find. It was everywhere in the 1990s, back when Lindemans Bin 65, Petaluma Chardonnay, Rosemount and Tyrrell’s were in their buttery pomp. Tyrrell’s still makes great chardonnay but finding a buttery chardonnay that is a) affordable and b) the best of its kind can be difficult. So whenever I come across a buttery chardonnay for this site, I’ll now add a tag to the wine, so that all buttery chardonnays are easy to find. This tag will be updated whenever I find a wine that suits the style.

The Buttery Chardonnay tag is here.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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