Moppity Lock & Key Chardonnay 2025
$35, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Tumbarumba.
The pear flavour are strong, the slip of oak subtle but important. This is a fresh, fruit-driven wine with vibrant peach, apple and pear-flavoured fruit characters swinging generously through the palate, the finish then honed and infused with cedarwood. There’s craft to this wine. It has the flavour and energy and balance just right. 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.
