La Vicomte Authentique Chardonnay 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of La Vicomte Authentique Chardonnay 2025.

La Vicomte Authentique Chardonnay 2025
$30, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Pays d’Oc France.

Some wines just get the combination of dryness and fruitiness right, and this wine is one of them. It’s blessed with sunny stonefruit, pear and grilled peach flavour – flashed minorly with attractive brine-like notes – but it then finishes dry and gently textural, which gives the wines shape and readies your palate for the next sip. In other words, everything is in good order here. 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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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