Acta Non Verba Chardonnay 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Acta Non Verba Chardonnay 2022 on a white background, ready for review by Mattinson.

Acta Non Verba Chardonnay 2022
$55, 13.5% alcohol, Cork, Adelaide Hills.

This is a rich, mouthfilling chardonnay with powerful grilled peach flavours melting into cream, almond paste, cedar-spice and nougat. It feels controlled throughout but there’s serious substance to this wine. It’s straw-coloured in the glass and alive with flavours. Mineral and gravel-like accents give this wine an extra edge of quality. Hold off from drinking it for another year or two – if you can – and then watch it explode into action. 94+ 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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