Ottelia Chardonnay 2025
AU$34, 12.8% alcohol, screwcap, Mount Gambier.
Beautiful chardonnay. It steps you into a world of flavour, fragrance, texture and more. It tastes of peach, honey, citrus, sea-spray and nuts, the latter injecting a gentle almond-cream aspect. Essentially this wine is dry, direct, flavoursome and delicious. And distinctive. In short, it’s a winner from every angle.
93 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
