Mandala Sands Chardonnay 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Mandala Sands Chardonnay 2025
$60, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley.

This is a dry chardonnay with pear, brine, nectarine and apple flavours working slowly towards nougat and cedar-cream. It’s racy and refreshing at heart, but it’s also textural and complex, with no shortage of sophistication. It’s only a few months old but as it rests in the bottle it will develop (extra) flesh, and be even better for it. Right now it presents as both tasty and racy, in a good way. 92 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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