MMAD Vineyard Blewitt Springs Chenin Blanc 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of MMAD Vineyard Blewitt Springs Chenin Blanc 2025.

MMAD Vineyard Blewitt Springs Chenin Blanc 2025
$52, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

MMAD Vineyard Blewitt Springs Chenin Blanc has had a sensational start to its career. The 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 releases all scored 94/100 points or higher on The Winefront site, and this 2025 release is a continuation of this standard.

There’s a gravitas to this release. It remains frisky and juicy and fruity, but it has a genuine flare to the finish, it’s bolstered by perfectly integrated woodsmoke and cedarwood characters, it has a saline edge, and the texture sits at a perfect just-satiny point. There’s a juiciness to this wine, as mentioned, but it feels dry through the back half, almost pebbly, with an itch of grip there too. It’s nuanced now but time will bring exaggeration in the most entertaining of ways. 95 points.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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