Clifton Brewer-Clifton 3D Chardonnay 2022
14.5% alcohol, cork, Sta. Rita Hills/US.
This has character. Rounds of stone fruit, preserved lemon and fragrant herbs, almost lemongrass territory, minerals, saline acidity. Genuine sparks of energetic flavour through the finish. Exciting wine. Sizeable, different, charismatic, ‘you know you’re alive’ kind of wine. 95 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.
