Shaw + Smith Lenswood Vineyard Chardonnay
- White
- Australia
- Adelaide Hills
- Chardonnay
- Tracked vintages
- 10
- Community notes
- 78
- Merchant offers
- 43
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 96/ 1002024 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 86/ 10078 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £41per 75 cl2024 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- Drinking window
- 2020–2026drinking2018 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 53 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Chardonnay.
- Body3.5 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.4 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, butter, vanilla, butterscotch
- Citrus · citrus, lemon, lime, grapefruit, lemon pith
- Earth · stone, flint, minerals, smoke, chalk
- Tree fruit · stone fruit, white peach, green apple, peach, yellow apple
- Yeast and lees · cream, lemon curd, oil
- Ageing (non-oak) · toast, nutty, biscuit, brioche, chestnut
Grapes: Chardonnay. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2015One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2024
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
Every score below is a critic score.
- 202496£41 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- 202395£41 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- 202296£19 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
- 202195£48 / 75cl6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 202096£44 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
- 201996£45 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023
- 201896£39 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2022
- 201797£40 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2022
- 201697£40 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021
- 201598£38 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2018
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2015
- 98 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2017
- peak, window 2019–2037
- Lowest price
- 2022
- £19 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | £41 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026 |
| 2023 | £41 | 95 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026 |
| 2022 | £19 | 95.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026 |
| 2021 | £48 | 95 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2020 | £44 | 95.6 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025 |
| 2019 | £45 | 95.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023 |
| 2018 | £39 | 96.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2022 |
| 2017 | £40 | 97 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2022 |
| 2016 | £40 | 97 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021 |
| 2015 | £38 | 98 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2018 |
Where to go next
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