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PROPHET’S ROCK CUVÉE aux ANTIPODES BLANC 2022

  • Closure: Cork
  • Unit: Each
  • Volume: 750ml
  • Alcohol: 12.5%
  • Grape: 100% Chardonnay

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Winery notes (2019 Vintage)
"This Chardonnay is a collaboration between Prophet’s Rock winemaker Paul Pujol and esteemed French winemaker François Millet from Chambolle-Musigny, Burgundy. Former winemaker at Comte George de Vogüé for 35 vintages, François continues to make wine in Burgundy with his family under ‘François Millet et Fils’ and with us in New Zealand.

The grapes were sourced from the small one hectare Chardonnay block on our Kopuwai Delta vineyard, located in the Pisa sub-region of Central Otago. This site has a mix of glacial and alluvial soil. Meticulous viticulture and the site’s low-elevation help to ensure full ripeness and concentration. Cellaring will reward collectors over the next 10+ years from vintage.

The handpicked fruit is whole-bunch pressed and fermented in barrel using only indigenous ‘wild’ yeast. The wine then spends 17 months in barrel (16% new) and undergoes indigenous malolactic fermentation. The wine is bottled unfiltered under Diam cork."


Reviews for previous vintages below…


5 Stars & 95/100 Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review, February 2024 (2020 Vintage)
"Intense, mouth-filling chardonnay with marzipan, brioche, nutty yeast lees, mineral/oyster shell flavours. Complex wine that can be enjoyed now or allowed to mellow for a few more years."


95/100 Joe Czerwinski, The Wine Advocate (2018 Vintage)
"…One of the more profound Chardonnays I’ve tasted from Central Otago."


Elaine Chukan Brown, JancisRobinson.com (2018 Vintage)
"The Antipodes Chardonnay bursts forth with what I see as the region’s characteristic acid signature – like a high wattage light bulb with a diffusing lens, incredibly bright with softened edges. While the wine is still incredibly young, its fineness is apparent with a lovely sense of transparency and restraint, flavours of both citrus and white stone fruits, with just a hint of biscuit and very lightly framed with spice. There is a pleasing texture and mouthfeel, plenty of mid-palate density without even a hint of heaviness, and a lot of length. This wine of nuance will surely develop further with time in bottle. Allow aeration and time to taste."


Rated Outstanding & 98/100 Cameron Douglas MS (2018 Vintage)
"Totally captivating bouquet, exotic spices, elegance and finesse. Both the nose and palate offer a pure fruit attack with white peach and pear then apple and white flowers, very fragrant. A soft salty mineral layer adds texture, depth and complexity – and reflects the wild ferment technique. Satin through silk and fine creamy texture, fine tannins, long finish. Drink now and through 2024. If Chardonnay were shoes – this would be in the Louboutin section!"


5 Stars Michael Cooper (2018 Vintage)
"Already delicious, the 2018 vintage is a single-vineyard Chardonnay, grown at Pisa, in Central Otago, and fermented and matured for 17 months in oak barrels (15 per cent new). Bright, light yellow/green, it is weighty and rich, with concentrated stone-fruit flavours, hints of toast and butterscotch, refined acidity, and a long finish. A very harmonious wine, it's a drink-now or cellaring proposition."

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