Curtis Family Vineyards Legion Chardonnay 2025
$35, 13% alcohol, screwcap, South Australia.
This is a flavoursome chardonnay with grilled peach, sweet pear and nectarine flavours running throughout. There’s a gentle creamy/buttery character to the palate, which is as much about ‘feel’ as flavour, and a decent-enough push through the finish as well. It won’t win gold medals but it will satisfy. 90 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.
