Flowstone Chardonnay 2022
$45, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.
Essense of chardonnay. Sunny peach, steel, oak spice and cream, with sweet nut and curry leaf characters as highlights. It’s straw-coloured and has pleasing richness – along with ample sling (of flavour) through the finish. Well played. Everything is in harmony here. 93 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.
