Welland Near & Far Chardonnay 2024
$18, 13% alcohol, screwcap, South Australia.
Classic peach and pear flavours are served straight down the line here. It’s frisky and flavoursome at once, with gently nutty overtones. In terms of points I’d be in the 88-90 range but at $18 it’s very good value and drinking. It’s a refreshing chardonnay, well made and presented.
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.
