Onannon Robinson Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Onannon Robinson Chardonnay 2022

Onannon Robinson Vineyard Chardonnay 2022
AU $70, 13.5% alc, screwcap, Mornington Peninsula..

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 bottle 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.

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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