Shaw & Smith - M3 - Chardonnay - 2020 - 750ml - Shaw + Smith

It's a creamy, reductive, oak-driven style that's currently showing notes of struck match and butterscotch amidst ripe lime and melon fruit. Acidity feels a bit forced on the lemon pithy palate. There's welcome citrusy freshness, but a finish that highlights the vanillin oak.