Onannon Robinson Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Bottle of Onannon Robinson Chardonnay 2022

Onannon Robinson Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

This wine has been on the market for a while and is now mostly sold out but that extra time in bottle has been a blessing, as it is with many top end chardonnays. In fact – contrary to popular opinion – I would argue that quality chardonnay often benefits more from a bit of extra time in the bottler than, say, shiraz does.

In any case this straw-coloured wine is in a beautiful drinking place right now. It’s flinty, it’s zippy, it’s awash with white peach and pears flavours but it’s the inputs of grapegruit, butter, curry leaf and flint that really get the pulse elevated. This is a seriously gorgeous bottle of Australian chardonnay. It’s long, flavoursome, racy and more. This would match it with all-comers.

AU $70, 13.5% alc, screwcap.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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