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BILANCIA KAIKORA CHARDONNAY 2022

Product Code: 5698
Country: New Zealand
Region: Hawkes Bay
Style: White
Variety: Chardonnay

Closure: Screw Cap
Unit: Each
Volume: 750ml
Alcohol: 13.0%
Grape: 100% Chardonnay

Original price was: $64.99.Current price is: $58.99.

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Cameron Douglas MS Top 12 Hawkes Bay Chardonnay Collection 2022

Winery notes (2022 Vintage)
"A single vineyard Chardonnay from Kaikora Vineyard in Ōtāne. Kaikora is the original name for the town of Ōtāne in Central Hawke’s Bay. The name was changed to avoid confusion with Kaikōura in the South Island. Kaikora Vineyard Chardonnay is a part of our project to highlight some of the most unique, small, single vineyards in Hawke’s Bay.

Central Hawke’s Bay’s moderately cooler climate delivers fruit with a unique profile. Full, ripe fruit with some flint and hints of pink grapefruit on the palate. With time the wine will open up further. The 2022 Kaikora Vineyard Chardonnay is a great food wine."

96/100 Gary Walsh, The Wine Front, July 2024 (2022 Vintage)
"Woah, this one knocked me back a bit. A bit of struck match, lemon oil, nectarine, spice. Tight and flinty, intense core of acidity, runs from front to back with such power. Grapefruit zesty. So lively. Superb."

96/100 Jamie Goode, WineAnorak.com, August 2024 (2022 Vintage)
"This has a distinctive matchstick/mineral reductive note on the nose, which is really appealing, offering brightness and pure, zesty citrus fruit. The palate is lean and detailed with a mineral framing to the ripe but precise lemon, grapefruit and pear fruit. There might even be some pineapple tropicality here in the background. Such energy and focus to this wine: it’s quite brilliant."

95/100 David Walker Bell, WineFolio.co.nz, July 2024 (2022 Vintage)
"A step up from the previous vintage that was in the 2021 box. White peach, hay, weetbix, nashi pear, lemon peel and grapefruit scents. Quite tight and elegant on entry, but quickly blooms and shows an energy and intensity. Some fruit tannin and gravelly minerality underline the ripe fruit, with barrel spice notes supporting. A salinity to the acidity that flows right into the dry, concentrated finish."

5 Stars Michael Cooper (2022 Vintage)
"Is this the best wine yet from Central Hawke's Bay? Grown at Otane (Kaikora is the original name for the town of Otane), the youthful 2022 vintage was hand-harvested, and fermented and matured in French oak barriques (partly new). Bright, light yellow/green, it has a fragrant, citrusy, slightly smoky, complex bouquet. Full-bodied, it had deep, vibrant, citrusy, peachy, mealy flavours, finely integrated oak, good acid spine, and excellent vigour, poise and length. Best drinking 2026+."

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