Mr Riggs Cold Chalk Chardonnay 2025
AU$30, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
Flavour and then some. This Adelaide Hills chardonnay doesn’t hold back. Ripe peach, pear, pineapple and cooked apple flavours come slung with cedar, honey and butter. It remains fresh, even vibrant, and its balance cannot be faulted. But if you’re on the hunt for flavour, you’ve come to the right place.
93 points – Campbell Mattinson.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
