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

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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 national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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