Charles Reuben Estate Light Oak Chardonnay 2025
$45, 12.8% alcohol, screwcap, Tasmania.
Bright pear-like aromas and flavours lead in to a flavoursome palate that feels satisfying from start to finish. Peach, pear and grapefruit fruit characters do most of the talking here, with cedar-like oak in modest but appropriate support. There’s genuine power to the fruit here. 91 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.
