Irvine Altitude Eden Valley Chardonnay 2025
$35, 12.3% alcohol, screwcap, Eden Valley.
This is such an attractive wine to drink. It feels cool and refreshing in part, courtesy of its mouthwatering persona, but it then throws flavours of meal, peach, tonic water and nectarine at you in good measure, the end result as satisfying as it is more-ish. Those tonic water characters give this chardonnay a bit of difference – in a good way. 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.
