Pepper Tree Pump Shed Chardonnay 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Pepper Tree Pump Shed Chardonnay 2023.

Pepper Tree Pump Shed Chardonnay 2023
$55, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully.

Full-bodied chardonnay never went out of style, it just became – for a period – a bit harder to find. This is a full-bodied chardonnay and a good one at that, though it still presents a fresh face to the world. It tastes of peaches and pears for the most part, but it also carries an infusion of smoked cedarwood, and the barest whisper of melted butter too. What this wine really does though is fill your glass with flavour, and keep the flavours going long through the finish as well. It’s a beaut. 93 points.

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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