Shaw + Smith M3 Chardonnay 2025

One of Australia’s most beloved and ordered Chardonnay from wine bars, restaurant lists and bottle shops. Perhaps due to Wadeawitz’s ability to evolve the style whilst maintaining the torrent of Chardonnay flavour each and every vintage. This vintage has its bouquet of lemon aspen and frangipani, some white peach fuzz and yellow melon. Oak feels creamy and more focused with churned butter and icing than peanut and vanilla char. Some lingering peach candy and bee pollen and a slight bitterness of lemon skin. There are some edges and angles to what is a very taut wine filled with orchard fruit and cool climate juicy acidity. Drink now or hold for 3-4 years further. Some fat poached prawns balancing on iceberg lettuce in a martini glass for this one.

Shanteh Wale

Contributor at Wine Companion

Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.

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