Les Tamarins Chardonnay 2025
AU$35, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, France.
This is a flavour-rich chardonnay with brassy stonefruit flavours rippling throughout. It hits and it run s and it satisfies. There’s a pear-and-tonic-water character to the aftertaste which would work nicely at the dining table.
90 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
