Jack Estate Chardonnay 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Jack Estate Chardonnay 2022.

Jack Estate Chardonnay 2022
$25, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.

I first tasted this wine a couple years ago and since then it’s hardly budged an inch. That’s a good sign. It tastes of pear, peach and citrus with a smidgen of spicy, cedarwood-like oak running through, though it also now carries a gentle tonic-like edge, the latter of which is a most attractive trait. This is drinking well now though truth is that it will also continue to drink well over the next handful of years. 90 points.

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 both The Winefront site (the home of Australia’s best wine reviews) and of Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer 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 national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson is a storyteller. He is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic, and in all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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