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.

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.

Score: 93+
Production: 138 dozen (only).

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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