Winery notes (2023 Vintage)
"The Reed Vineyard Chardonnay is an incredibly textured, savoury wine. It summons a tightly-coiled white peach, grapefruit and toasted hazelnut aroma profile, which is complemented by complex flint and silex nuances. Its vividly sketched acidity allows it to carry the powerful but savoury oak in a defined yet impressive manner. This is a wine for drinking now for its crystalline purity, or cellaring and reaping the benefits of tertiary development in many years to come."
96/100 JamesSuckling.com, November 2024 (2023 Vintage)
"A single-vineyard, high-volume chardonnay with apples, smoke, lightly toasted vanilla and matchstick. Full-bodied, yet there is tension and intensity. Shows excellent length, going on and on. Drink or hold."
Rated Excellent & 94/100 Cameron Douglas MS, January 2025 (2023 Vintage)
"An excellent bouquet and palate, saline and fresh, stone fruit and wood smoke, mineral and baking spice scents. A satin-cream mouthfeel as the wine touches followed by flavours of grapefruit peel the peach, apple then a layer of spices from wood and lees effect. Harmoniously dry with complexity and texture. Best drinking from day of purchase or early 2025 through 2028+."
Reviews for the 2022 vintage below…
5 Stars, 95/100 & Top Rated Marlborough 2022 Chardonnay, Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review, November 2023 (2022 Vintage)
"Weighty, mouth-filling chardonnay with grapefruit, saline/oyster shell, lime zest, nutty yeast lees aromas and a suggestion of sizzled butter. Great without the complication of food but even better with my hot-smoked salmon."