Shaw + Smith M3 Chardonnay 2024
AU$58, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
Beautiful chardonnay. Fruity and flinty, fleshy and full. Peach, grapefruit, pear, cedar and brine characters rip through the palate, all set off by those flint notes. It’s a champion wine; ultra long and ultra engaging.
96 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.
