Anvers Kingsway Chardonnay 2025
$38, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is an absolutely delicious chardonnay. It tastes of ripe pears, chalk, cedarwood and smoked cream, but its appeal is more than the sum of its parts. It just has that extra yum factor – in the context, it must be said, of structure, control and eventual persistence through the finish. Everything this wine does, it does well. 93 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.
