Shaw + Smith M3 Chardonnay 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Shaw + Smith M3 Chardonnay 2022.

Shaw + Smith M3 Chardonnay 2022
$55, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

This was released a couple of years ago.

It’s hardly budged in the interim. It’s super fresh, flinty, complex and arguably still resolving itself through the finish. As a result, score-wise, I kept oscillating between 93 and 94. Ripe peach, grapefruit, lime, cedarwood and cream, with pine and lots of matchstick character. Indeed there’s borderline too much matchstick character here, though it works and the overall wine is good. 93+ 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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