Description / Reviews
"Delicate yet complex, offering lifted notes of lemon peel, citrus blossom and subtle tempering spice. The palate is citrus-driven, with flavours of grapefruit and lemon. Fine, flinty layers and a touch of almond meal add depth and texture through the mid-palate while bright acidity (impressive for the warmer season!) gives length and precision. Moreish." - Shaw + Smith, Winemaker
"The 2025 M3 Chardonnay is lean and citrus-driven initially, before moving into a creamy, textural middle palate. This is routinely the game plan for this wine, and the consistency and quality of it is reassuring. It's worked (presumably extended time on the lees and malolactic fermentation, etc.), and this brings with it the creaminess we see on the palate, while the bright fruit is typical of the Adelaide Hills region—almost always on the white/yellow end of the spectrum. This is an elegant, lovely wine." - 94 Points, Erin Larkin, Robert Parker Wine Advocate
"Shaw + Smith’s M3 Chardonnay is always very good, always widely available and usually pretty good buying. I’ve certainly consumed my fair share over the years. I don’t say this of white wine often but this release feels as though the flavours have been painted in watercolours. For me that’s not a negative but one person’s watercolours is another person’s diffuse. It’s minorly, minorly flinty, it flows with peach, pear, cedar and cooked apple flavours throughout, it carries a gentle rub of texture and it finishes with an element of tonic water. Everything seems in very good, if not excellent, order. It’s very straight-laced but I think that’s what the fruit, from this vintage, wanted." - 93 Points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
