M3 Adelaide Hills Chardonnay, Shaw & Smith 2025

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. It is consistently lovely

Very light, bright yellow colour with a wood-shavings note overlying citrus and stone fruit aromas, the palate quite intense, with a little nougat richness and decent persistence, promising to build more complexity and richness with time.