Cooks Lot Iconique Barrique Rolled Chardonnay 2019

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Cooks Lot Iconique Barrique Chardonnay Rolled 2019.

Cooks Lot Iconique Barrique Rolled Chardonnay 2019
$60, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Orange.

This wine is seven years old but it feels as though it’s only just starting its journey. A long life can be expected – if you can keep your hands off it. It offers a great deal of richness, a wealth of texture to go with it, and an excellent extra push of flavour through the finish. It tastes of ripe peaches, cedar, pine, butter, cashews and cream, with crushed fennel and saltbush notes popping through the aftertaste. This wine isn’t the life of the party; it is the party. 93+ points.

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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