Allegiance Wines The Matron Tumbarumba Chardonnay 2025
$35, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Tumbarumba.
This is a fresh, almost racy chardonnay though it also has both the flavour and the texture to satisfy. Apple, green pineapple, citrus and stonefruit flavours come laced with smoky, almost milky, oak. It works for its flavour and for its zestiness. 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.
