PYRAMID VALLEY NORTH CANTERBURY CHARDONNAY 2024

Sensational North Canterbury Chardonnay – Burgundy Lookalike

Product Code: 2365
Country: New Zealand
Region: North Canterbury
Sub Region: Waipara
Style: White
Variety: Chardonnay
Producer: Pyramid Valley Vineyards

Closure: Screw Cap
Unit: Each
Volume: 750ml
Alcohol: 13.5%
Grape: 100% Chardonnay
Natural: Vegan Friendly

$42.99

Sensational North Canterbury Chardonnay – Burgundy Lookalike

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Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"The 2023/2024 growing season was shaped by El Niño, bringing warm, dry conditions that produced moderate yields and beautifully ripe fruit. An especially dry finish to the season concentrated flavours and contributed to slightly higher acidities.

This is the first vintage of our North Canterbury Chardonnay to include a meaningful contribution from our new plantings at Waikari, bringing added freshness, tension and a more chiseled feel to the wine. A delicious and refined Chardonnay with a distinctive chalky texture and a lovely saline backbone.

The flavours are subtle yet layered, making this a wine that is more about texture and complexity than overt fruitiness. As the wine opens in the glass, its flavours gradually unfold and gain depth with exposure to air. A Chardonnay of understated power, elegance, and poise. Drink 2026–2030.

The fruit was hand-picked and hand-sorted before being crushed as whole bunches and gently pressed in a horizontal bag press. The juice was homogenised in tank before being transferred, without settling into foudre and barrels (23% new). Fermentation proceeded with ambient yeasts followed by full malolactic conversion. No additions were made, and the wine remained on its lees without sulphur for 12 months. It was then blended and sulphured in April 2025. The wine spent a second winter on light lees in small horizontal stainless steel tanks, allowing natural settling to occur. It was bottled unfined and unfiltered in September 2025 and sealed under screwcap.

17.5/20 Jancis Robinson, JancisRobinson.com, September 2026 (2024 Vintage)
"Tasted blind. Mild and possibly stony. High toned with excellent acidity – a really lovely, well-balanced drink with great intensity but fantastic acidity too. [I thought this was burgundy.]"

94/100 Rebecca Gibb MW, Vinous (2024 Vintage)
"Power meets elegance in the 2024 Chardonnay North Canterbury, which hits all the right notes. Unadulterated winemaking doesn't take away from its purity. The palate is focused and firm while maintaining finesse. A line of ripe, tangy acidity cuts through with bright resonance and direction. An intense concentration of intriguing aromas includes chamomile, lemon and herbs. At this stage, the 2024 is young and raw but serious, showing excellent potential for the future."

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Pyramid Valley's story began in the slopes and soil of North Canterbury at Waikari Estate. In 2000, Mike & Claudia Elze Weersing applied their impressive array of knowledge in viticulture, oenology, and biodynamics to this plot of land.

Steve Smith and Brian Sheth took the reins in 2017 to continue the legacy of spectacular winemaking. Some of the world's most profound Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays have been produced at Waikari, its combination of fertile soil and high-altitude slopes constituting a unique terroir over 80 hectares of perfectly placed plantings.

In 2018 the scope of Pyramid Valley's wine environs expanded with the purchase of Manata Estate in Central Otago. This established (over 150 years) vineyard has bolstered the magnificent Pinot Noir offering of Pyramid Valley, due to soils of rare distinction - the result of careful culivation resulting in soils with high levels of organic matter and natural humus.