Carlei Estate Chardonnay 2012

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Carlei Estate Chardonnay 2012.

Carlei Estate Chardonnay 2012
$59, 13%, screwcap, Yarra Valley.

Only 216 dozen were made, and the wine is now thirteen years old. It’s amazing that any has survived this long and yet survive it has and, indeed, thrive. This is a lovely drink. It’s golden in colour, slipped with tangerine, mandarin and grilled peach flavours, creamy/buttery in both texture and taste, and then honeyed and citrussy through the finish. It is fully mature now, in the best of ways. 92 points.

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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