Gapsted Estate Chardonnay 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Gapsted Estate Chardonnay 2023.

Gapsted Estate Chardonnay 2023
$65, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Alpine Valleys.

Excellent concentration of fruit flavour and the complexity to go with it. This chardonnay kicks some important goals. It tastes of nectarine and pink grapefruit, oyster shells, nougat, wheat and steel, and while it has a richness – and a keen textural element – it feels racy and refreshing throughout. As this wine breathes flinty aromatics emerge, which only adds to both the quality and the appeal. This wine will improve further over the next couple of years. 94 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 a respected 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 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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