PALLISER ESTATE CHARDONNAY 2024

Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"A beautifully ripe and expressive nose of golden peach, nectarine and vanilla, mingling with Beurre Noisette and almond meal. Sumptuous and creamy in the mouth with luscious stone fruit and vanilla oak complexity, the wine is full-bodied and powerful, with notes of creme brûlée and apricot danish on the finish.

Handpicked, whole bunch pressed and fermented in french oak barrels by the yeast from the vineyard. After fermenation is complete the barrels are kept topped and some lees stirring on selected barrels adds complexity and texture to the wine. After 10 months in barrel the wine is racked clear to tank and bottled in March 2025."

Rated Outstanding & 95/100 Cameron Douglas MS, July 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"An excellent bouquet and palate with core aromas of complexity and finesse, ripe white fleshed stone fruits and citrus then layers of lees and gently applied wood spices. There’s a sense of place with this wine suggestion fine friable clay soils and mineral. A lovely weight and texture on the palate, silky and vibrant with fine tannins and acid line. Fruit and soil flavours mirror the bouquet with a luscious lengthy finish. Best drinking from day of purchase though 2031+."

93/100 & Top 100 New Zealand Wines of 2025, JamesSuckling.com (2024 Vintage)
"Rich and layered, with aromas of poached peaches, pears and hints of fresh almonds, cream and pastry. Tense, mouthwatering and generous in flavour, it has a medium to full body with a core of delicious stone fruit and and a flavourful finish."

5 Stars & Top 10 Cuisine Chardonnay Tasting, September 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"Clean and bright in the glass with fresh lifted aromatics. The palate is very well structured and precise with flavours that are both well concentrated yet subtle, with a nice flavour intensity without overwhelm which speaks to the wine’s excellent balance."

17.5/20 Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com, January 2026 (2024 Vintage)
"The intensity of brightness and brilliance of the fruit in this wine made me take a step back, fumbling for my sunglasses! It tastes so much like a mini riff on all things orange: the top-note flutter and drift of orange blossom, neroli and indole; the mid-note bite and tang and juice-burst of Seville orange and mandarin; the slow sweetness, syrupy drawl and pull of marmalade and candied peel; and the deep, honeyed, amaro-and-truffle earthiness of decaying clementines. And the steady, quiet drum beat of hazelnut-and-nutmeg spice of the oak threading it together. It’s both fun and serious, and it was a joy to taste."