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Buy OnlineThe Limeworks obviously works by the way it keeps rolling out the door. With as much value as it has flavour, this is a bigger, fatter styled Chardonnay complete with a good dollop of oak (including 20% new American oak) and a nice vein of limestone driven mineral acidity giving it lift and persistence.
As Michael Cooper says… "If you like toasty, creamy, full-flavoured Chardonnays, try this.."
Winery notes (2021 Vintage)
"This chardonnay was crafted from the excellent 2021 Hawkes Bay harvest. After a dry warm growing season we harvested the perfectly ripened fruit off our Limeworks Vineyard. Post pressing and settling the juice was run off to barrel (20% new American) for fermentation and MLF. The wine was left on lees for 9 months barrel maturation and lees contact.
A melange of vanilla, cream, sweet lemon, grapefruit, hazelnut, and subtle oak. This is a big, rich Chardonnay. It has weight, sweet fruit, beautiful texture and length."
Rated Excellent & 93/100 Cameron Douglas MS, March 2023 (2021 Vintage)
"Deep straw with golden hues lead to a bouquet of toasted stone fruits and barrel spices, there’s a fine mineral chalk-like quality adding complexity and finesse. Aromas of a complete wine. Plenty of classic flavours and textures on the palate with a roasted nut and baked stone fruits attack, vanilla and burnt butter, a touch of clove and stone mineral qualities. Dry, fine tannins, balanced, well made and ready to drink from 2023 through 2029. A wine that will continue to develop over the next 1-3 years."
5 Stars & 93/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, February 2023 (2021 Vintage)
"This is immediately appealing on the nose with apricot, fig, vanilla, roasted cashew and oatmeal notes, leading to a flavoursome palate offering juicy fruit flavours with supple texture, finishing lingering and delectable. At its best: now to 2026."
4 ½ Stars Michael Cooper (2021 Vintage)
"If you like toasty, creamy, full-flavoured Chardonnays, try this. Grown in the Havelock North hills, it is fermented and matured in American oak casks. The vigorous 2021 vintage is very promising. Bright, light yellow/green, it is very fresh and vibrant, with concentrated, peachy flavours, seasoned with toasty oak, balanced acidity and obvious cellaring potential; best drinking 2024+."
