J. Lohr Arroyo Vista Arroyo Seco Chardonnay 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of J. Lohr Arroyo Vista Chardonnay Arroyo Seco 2023.

J. Lohr Arroyo Vista Arroyo Seco Chardonnay 2023
14.5% alcohol, Arroyo Seco, Monterey.

If you like rich, generous Chardonnay you'd hoover this straight up. It offers caramel notes, and grilled peach flavours, and with this comes a certain creaminess to the texture. We’re looking at very ripe fruit here – it almost feels sweet, such is the fruit ripeness – with rounds of custard and toffee notes layered through toasted stonefruits, into cooked apple. This is US $25; you get a lot of bang for your buck here. 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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