Curly Flat Williams Crossing Chardonnay 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Curly Flat Williams Crossing Chardonnay 2025.

Curly Flat Williams Crossing Chardonnay 2025
$34, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Macedon Ranges.

I’m happy to report that this return release of Williams Crossing Chardonnay 2025 is excellent. In fact it’s fantastic drinking and value. It features bright-but-intense fruit flavour, clear savoury inflections, sound texture and noteworthy length. All the ducks are in a row here. It tastes of cedar, hay, peach, waxed apples, nashi pear, whispers of fennel and a gentle saline aspect. It’s taut and more-ish at once. 93+ 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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