Review: Slow Wine Co. Chardonnay 2021

The Reserve Pinot from Orange’s Slow Wine Co. was pretty ambitious, but what about this more affordable Slow Wine Co. Chardonnay 2021? It’s certainly polished. Lots of flinty funk, maybe a bit too far into the sulphides, then a lick of butterscotch oak and yellow fruit. There’s a missing middle here, where it transitions from butterscotch into firm and flinty acidity with some oak tannins. But plenty stylish mod- Chardonnay all the same.

THE VERDICT

• Best drinking: now to five years and some. It's not going anywhere
• Score (out of 20): 17.5
• Score (out of 100): 91
• Alcohol %: 13.50
• RRP (in $AUD): 35
• Winery website: https://slowwineco.com.au/
• Would I buy it?: worth a few glasses