Little Frances Chardonnay 2023
$45, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Alpine Valleys.
This is a delicious chardonnay. It’s both fresh and persistent but what really characterises it is the way it builds a body of flavour; there’s nothing lean and mean about this wine. It’s neat but it’s generous. It tastes of candied apples, stonefruit, nashi pear and nougat and it feels 100% satisfying from start to finish. 92 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.
