2025 MMAD Vineyard Chenin Blanc

MMAD unites the experienced team behind Shaw + Smith and Tolpuddle around a historic single vineyard in McLaren Vale's Blewitt Springs. Working with rare vines dating as far back as 1939 set in sand over ironstone soils, they craft nuanced Grenache, Shiraz, and Chenin Blanc deeply rooted in provenance. It is a focused, site-driven project dedicated to letting these ancient vines express their true sense of place.

Other Reviews...
The evolution of this wine never ceases to interest and amaze me, there is incremental texture and chiselled edges to the wine wrapped in this slinky, saline and mineral driven package. Pomelo, buddhas hand, citrus and yellow plum. Pumice stone and white pepper. Some fennel seeds too. There is a coating to this wine, not quite oily but slick in nature, it sticks to the sides of your palate before rumbling down like a steam train of power with innate acidity and drive. Another exceptional release and a benchmark of what Chenin Banc can do in this country. This is a wine that accompanies so many morsels, from fish with fins to straticella or fried Balmain bug tails.
97 points
Shanteh Wale - Wine Pilot

The MMAD Chenin Blanc is a wine that grows significantly in bottle, leafing out fine pages of detail, yet this is already an engaging tome. Not advanced, not laying things on too early, with refinement central, but it’s a wine of immediate quality and complexity, which it will no doubt expand on in time. A little reductive right now, but in the best way, with saline, oyster-shell edges to the Lisbon lemon, pomelo and tart golden apple fruit flavours. Green pistachio, cypress, crushed stone and senesced fennel fronds and seeds accenting. Textural, but with such energy – pithy, vigorously alive. A superb release. Drink by 2033.
97 points
Marcus Ellis - James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion