Marri Wood Park Sparkling Chenin Blanc 2020
$45, 13.1% alcohol, DIAM cork, Margaret River.
This is a mind-bender and ultimately a mind-changer. It’s just so gorgeously well flavoured. It’s suggestive of sweetness but then it’s also awash with complex flavour, all of it harmonious, not to mention delicious. Apples, oranges, pears, earth, leaves and more. Seek this out. It’s awesome. 94 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.
