Shaw + Smith M3 Chardonnay 2024
Shaw + Smith M3 Chardonnay 2024

Shaw + Smith M3 Chardonnay 2024

Cellar or drinkWhite wineAustralia95 points - The Wine PilotScrew top

Adelaide Hills elegance, bottled 🍋🪵

The 2024 Shaw + Smith M3 Chardonnay continues its run as one of Australia’s most consistently excellent Chardonnays—and this vintage doesn’t miss.

Grown in the cool-climate Adelaide Hills and aged in French oak, it strikes that perfect balance between precision and texture. Expect white peach, nectarine, and citrus curd, layered with fine oak spice, a flicker of struck match, and that signature M3 line of mineral acidity.

Refined, expressive, and built to age—or drink now if you can’t wait. This is modern Aussie Chardonnay done right.

Drink window,2024 to 2030
Type,White wine
Varietals,Chardonnay
Vintage,2024
ABV,13%
Country,Australia
Region,South Australia
Sub region,Adelaide Hills
Bottle size,750ml
Bottle closure,Screw top
 
 
$49.00

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Critic reviews

What the experts say about this wine

In case you were not aware you are drinking some of the first grapes picked from the S+S high density planting of the Piccadilly vineyard. Lemon verbena, grapefruit and wet concrete. Celery stem, fresh ginger and printer paper. Peach cheeks and almond nougat. A wash of electrifying acidity, coconut jelly creaminess and finishing with a sake like leesy quality. This is intense in flavour as we have come to expect from the M3 perhaps with more savoury shapes than previous years. It’s compact and muscular but with nice elongated lines of acidity and freshness of citrus fruit. For a chilly vintage this is showing very well now and will cellar up to 5 years. Serve with baked buttery bbq pork char siu bao buns.

Light, bright yellow hue with a gentle trace of smoky reduction on the lemony bouquet, the palate delicate and refined with lemon and grapefruit, malt biscuit, a kiss of fresh oak, and an extended aftertaste of lovely balance.

Wonderfully constructed, showing polished aromas of lime curd, lemon balm, orange blossoms and gun smoke on the nose. The palate is medium-bodied with precise acidity and a generous mouthfeel, giving notes of fresh pineapple, white peaches, lime curd and shortbread.