Anvers Kingsway Chardonnay 2024
$38, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is a powerful chardonnay though it hones nicely though the finish. It tastes of grilled peach and butter, lemon myrtle and toast, with preserved lemon and butter characters – and perhaps some flint notes too – as highlights. It’s elegant. It’s composed. It’s powerful. It’s many good things. 92 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.
