Monty’s Leap The Mulberry Block Chardonnay 2022
$40, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Great Southern.
This is a flavoursome chardonnay with peach, butter, honeysuckle and cream flavours sizzling through the palate. It has a smoothness to its texture and good volume of flavour; creamy, cashew-y overtones then add positively to the overall impression. For all this, it remains fresh and has some zip. 90 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.
