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

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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