Smeaton Estate Stella Chardonnay 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Smeaton Estate Stella Chardonnay 2023.

Smeaton Estate Stella Chardonnay 2023
$58, 13.4% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

We are in the company of A Class Chardonnay here. Indeed this is as convincing a chardonnay as you ever will encounter. It tastes of grilled peaches and nuts, flint, white flowers and meal, with perhaps a flash of cinnamon in the mix too. But forget the descriptors. The result is a wine of brilliant intensity, character and length, and that’s all you need to know. It’s the perfect example of just how glorious Adelaide Hills Chardonnay can be. 96 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.

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