ROAR Wines Soberanes Vineyard Chardonnay 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of ROAR Wines Soberanes Vineyard Chardonnay 2023.

ROAR Wines Soberanes Vineyard Chardonnay 2023
14.7% alcohol, cork, California.

The alcohol is high here but so too is the power of fruit flavour. I was a bit smitten by the wines off the Soberanes Vineyard, both from ROAR and Pisoni.

This was tasted on the Mattinson in California trail.

Great fruit, great length, genuine character but also a lot of oak. Custard, cedar, cream, yellow peach, pear and citrus. There’s a lot of wine here. We will know its true quality when the oak influence has settled. Love how tight this is. Love the killer chalkiness of the finish. I’m 93+ points because of the oak; if that settles I’m a couple of points higher.

93+ points.

Production: 138 dozen (only).

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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