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Shaw & Smith M3 Chardonnay 2024
DOZEN: $660.00 or $55.00 each
A fine, flinty, tense and taut chardonnay set to a leaner expression. Still, it dials in enough peachy fruit, tart citrus freshness and lithe nougat notes, with touches of green herb and cinnamon spice in tow. That reads like a good and long list, and it is. The wine offers drinkers a more refreshing, fine expression, with minerality as a byword. Very polished, too. Neat. (94) MIKE BENNIE, Halliday Wine Companion
I’ve really come to like Adelaide Hills Chardonnay, which is not to say that I didn’t like it in the past, more a growing appreciation of the synergy of region and grape variety.
This is a fine-boned kind of restrained style, though it’s not without flavour. I like the flinty texture, subtle application of spicy oak, and overall balance it has. There’s some peach and lemon verbena, grapefruit, lime rind, green olive maybe and cashew nuts, with a bright and crunchy finish of good length. Nice wine, though you have to like them on the leaner water-coloured side of the Chardonnay spectrum. Ideally needs a little more time in bottle. (93+)CAMPBELL MATTINSON, The Wine Front
Very light yellow in the glass and brilliantly clear, with aromas of broken chalk, lemon, malt and creamy lees, a hint of nougat too but it's still very young and a little reserved. A refined chardonnay with lots of living to do. HUON HOOKE, The Real Review