Riposte The Katana Chardonnay 2025
AU$29, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is a good “go-to” chardonnay. It delivers a good volume of flavour, it has a velvety aspect to its mouthfeel, there are hints of sweet oak and even butter-like flavour, and it pusles pleasingly through the finish. Everything here is in good order, and it’s satisfying.
91 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.
