Vandenberg Estate Mt Benson Chardonnay 2025
$35, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Mount Benson.
Fruit power and lots of it. This is an excellent chardonnay. Grapefruit, grilled peach, cooked apple and citrus flavours come gently cloaked in cedarwood oak. It’s both bright and bodied through the palate – and is fully satisfying as a result – but it then hones perfectly through the finish. Plenty of class on offer here; not to mention flavour. 93 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.
