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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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