Wilimee Cambrian Chardonnay 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Wilimee Cambrian Chardonnay 2025.

Wilimee Cambrian Chardonnay 2025
AU$65, 12.3% alcohol, screwcap, Macedon Ranges.

Exaggerated flint notes introduce a wine of flare, intrigue, drama and flavour. This wine does not walk a middle road; it takes a side, and drives it with conviction. It tastes of hay, honey, grilled peach, burnt matchsticks, lemon curd and cooked apples. I wouldn’t call it balanced but I would call it captivating, if not electrifying. It’s not a safe wine. It will polarise. I personally think that it’s excellent.

94 points – Campbell Mattinson.

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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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