Kooyong Estate Chardonnay 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
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Kooyong Estate Chardonnay 2022
$50, 13.0% alcohol, screw cap, Mornington Peninsula.

Fifty AU dollars is hardly cheap for a bottle of wine but all things considered this wine is a pretty attractive proposition. In the glass it’s a lovely, complex, generous wine and it’s also – not that you can drink such things – a wine with a pretty impressive pedigree. For the past 20+ years this has been a super reliable wine, and never short on flavour. This 2022 release smells of popcorn and nougat but then tastes of juicy pear, peach and bacon fat. It’s a powerful wine, in a mouthwatering style. Its quality is clear. 94 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 (founded in 2002, and the home of Australia’s best Australian wine reviews) and 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.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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