Curtis Family Battle of Battonage Chardonnay 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Battle of Battonage Chardonnay 2025.

Curtis Family Battle of Battonage Chardonnay 2025
$95, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Adelaide Hills.

This is juicy and rich, textural and emphatic. It tastes of peach, grapefruit, woodsmoke and something umami-like, while cedar, cashew and banana-like characters add extra highlights. This wine is refined and neat but it’s not a shrinking violet; it lays down flavour (and texture) in no uncertain terms. It’s a luxurious chardonnay. It’s hedonistic. And it’s very good.

94 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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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