Monty’s Leap The Mulberry Block Chardonnay 2025
$40, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Great Southern.
This wine serves up delicious chardonnay flavours and a good volume of them. Indeed it’s an archetypal example of the variety in the best of ways. It tastes of ripe peach and pears, preserved lemons and cedar, with sweet spice and honey-like notes entering the fray through the finish. It all works a treat. 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.
