Onannon Robinson Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
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, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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