McWilliam’s Wines 660 Reserve Chardonnay 2024
$25, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Tumbarumba.
This is a fresh, effectively crisp, style of chardonnay but it also offers good flavour. It tastes of pears, stonefruit, grapefruit and lime, with cedarwood oak as a modest, attractive supporting cast. There’s a subtle creaminess to the texture too. This is a good wine at, it has to be noted, a very attractive price. 91 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
