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
"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
