Muto Albarino 2023: Review

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Yes this falls into the “it’s a little bit different” category but, at $20, Muto Albarino 2023 packs in more flavour and personality than most wines at this price level. It’s joy in a glass as far as I’m concerned. This straw-amber-coloured wine tastes of candied apricot, orange and pear, and feels soft and waxy as it passes through your mouth. There’s a smidgen of oak flavour here too, toasty, but it’s well set into the fruit flavour of the wine. Score-wise I’m north of 90 points which, for AU $20, make this organically-grown white wine from the Riverland extra good value.

In the Muto range I also love the Muto Picpoul 2023, also $20 and also (highly) characterful.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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