Franca's Vineyard Chardonnay 2025
$22, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, South Eastern Australia.
Flavours are on point here. Yellow peach and nectarine, pear and citrus flavours swing through the palate in fresh-faced style, satisfying as they flow. This is an uncomplicated wine, crisp and refreshing, with sound varietal character and a gently savoury finish. 89 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.
