Fat Bastard Chardonnay 2023
$22, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, California.
If you’re looking for a buttery chardonnay, this is your baby. It’s spot on, in its style. It tastes and smells of popcorn, butter, ripe peach and toast, and has pear and butterscotch characters floating around the edges. Lovers of Buttery Chardonnay: You are in business here. 90 points.
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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.
