Wynns Black Label Chardonnay 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Wynns Black Label Chardonnay 2025.

Wynns Black Label Chardonnay 2025
$45, 12.7% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.

The intensity of fruit flavour, the length, the flair and indeed the overall quality of this wine are all – excuse me for saying – surprisingly good. Chardonnay from Coonawarra doesn’t have the most electric of reputations. But here we see sunny peach and pear flavours of excellent dimension, and complex characters of hay, wheat, toasted cedar and tonic water. It’s as engaging as it is impressive. It’s gold medal territory. 93 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both the highly respected The Winefront site (founded 2002) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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