McWilliam’s Wines Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
$40, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Tumbarumba.
This wine is drinking well now, no doubt, but it’s going to age like a charm. It has beautiful length, form and flow, its flavours of grapefruit, white peach, citrus and oatmeal complemented by subtle smoky oak notes. By all means drink this now but pop a few bottles in the cellar and wait a few years; it will soar. 93 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.
