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

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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