Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"100% Amphora fermented – an exploration and celebration of our Moutere Clays. A wine of tension and texture that celebrates both power & grace. However, this wine is in no way, tense. It is serene, meditative, contemplative and confident.
There is a stillness here – like stepping into an ancient stone, cool cathedral. Monumental and grounded. The palate is lifted by a savoury lick of salt-block minerality and a whisper of summer citrus. Unshackled from tradition, the result is a contemporary, delicious wine for the chardonnay obsessed or averse. A complex and captivating nod to the old world.."
Reviews for the 2023 vintage below…
Rated Outstanding & 95/100 Cameron Douglas MS, September 2024 (2023 Vintage)
"Another exemplar from the Neudorf team with a bouquet of spiced white flowers, fine lees complexity, ripe white fleshed fruits with a citrus overlay. Excellent day 1, even better day 2, a wine that will reward if cellared. On the palate, delicious, textured, fine, complex and dry. Flavours of citrus, apple and quince, lemon and white peach. The lees and mineral qualities shine on day 2. An excellent example with length, texture and finesse. Best from late 2025 through 2030+."
94/100 Mike Bennie The Wine Front, October 2024 (2023 Vintage)
"Textural impressions of succulence and chalky dryness with green apple, ginger, lime juice, pink grapefruit and a mix of ginger and peppery spice. It’s a heady wine in its flinty, smoky minerality but does that with aplomb and well mixed into assertive fruit characters too. Lots of texture, lots of grip, brightness of fruit flavours and a general sense of quality overall. This is a winner."
94/100 Emma Jenkins MW, Decanter, March 2025 (2023 Vintage)
"Many will be familiar with the pedigree and deliciousness of Neudorf’s Moutere Home Block, but the pioneering Nelson producer makes other exciting Chardonnays, too. The lithe, saline Rosie’s Block Amphora is a great example; fermented in a clay amphora, it’s fragrant with stone fruit, lemongrass, grapefruit and subtle oatmeal. Textural and elegant with pleasing freshness and good length."










