The Lane Vineyard Chardonnay 2025
$30, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is chardonnay with the freshest of faces. It tastes of pears and peaches with smidgens of citrus and cedar, and throughout it feels both juicy and lively. Energetic is the word. It will complement food and the mood of the moment without ever threatening to get in the way of anything. 90 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.
