Diatom Santa Barbara Chardonnay 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Diatom Santa Barbara Chardonnay 2023.

Diatom Santa Barbara Chardonnay 2023
14.5% alcohol, cork, Santa Barbara/US.

The alcohol levels of your average Californian chardonnay are pretty out there, in how high they are. This wine is ripped with fruit – peach and candied citrus – with some toast, white flowers, cream and pear characters. It’s 14.5% alcohol but, indeed, the flavours roll straight through the warmth. It’s an interesting style, and an interesting wine. It’s big and frisky at once. 92 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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