Watkins Macclesfield Chardonnay 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Watkins Macclesfield Chardonnay 2021.

Watkins Macclesfield Chardonnay 2021
$50, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

This is a wine of uncommon deliciousness. It’s packed with flavour but it still manages to feel both neat and elegant. One sip and you just want to keep diving in for more. It tastes of peach, honey, vanilla pod and apple, with cedarwood oak applied with a light, skilful touch. At four years of age this wine is just starting to edge into its peak drinking years; it will keep drinking (very) well for the next 3-5 years at least. Lovely wine. 93 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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