Riposte The Katana Chardonnay 2024
AU$29, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
There’s genuine body to this wine, it has good mouthfeel too, and then the length of the finish impresses. There’s a lot to like about this Adelaide Hills chardonnay. Complex meal, flint and oak-spice characters thread through peach, lime, lime leaf and woodsmoke. There’s no need to wait on this wine either; it’s tip-top for drinking right now.
92 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
