Schwarz The Grower Chenin Blanc 2025
$30, 12.3% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
The wine offers a mouthful of flavour. That might sound like the bleeding obvious, but it has a bit more ‘body’ than most white wines. It tastes of pears, apples, salt and dried herbs, the latter a touch saltbush-like. It’s satisfying. It fruity but it has a savoury side. It works. 91 points.
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.
