Muto Albarino 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Muto Albarino 2023.

Muto Albarino 2023
AU$20

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.

91 points – Campbell Mattinson

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

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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