Mike Press Wines Chardonnay 2025
$36, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is an elegant chardonnay with hay, nectarine, nashi pear and brine characters running the length of the palate. It feels zippy throughout, and welcoming, though there’s also a gentle slip of texture and the finish is well extended. It’s textbook, in a good way. This is drinking well now but it should be better again with another 12-18 months extra time in the bottle. 91 points.
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.
