Hither & Yon Chenin Blanc 2025
$29, 13% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This is an attractive white wine. It tastes of lemon barley and pears, nectarine and woodsmoke, with a sweet-savoury nuttiness lingering about the edges. It’s medium in weight and refreshing, though it feels as though it will build more flesh with a bit more time in the bottle. All positives here. 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.
