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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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