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PYRAMID VALLEY PASTURES NORTH CANTERBURY CHARDONNAY 2022

Name: PYRAMID VALLEY PASTURES NORTH CANTERBURY CHARDONNAY 2022
SKU: 2365
Price: 46.99 NZD
Availability: InStock

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: 14.0%
Grape: 100% Chardonnay
Natural: Vegan Friendly

Original price was: $53.99.Current price is: $46.99.

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Winery notes (2022 Vintage)
"Hand-picked and fermented with natural vineyard yeasts and aged in 20% new French oak barrels and 38% in a concrete Tulipe for 12 months before settling in a concrete Tulipe on light lees for a further 5 months. Bottled unfined and unfiltered.

Slightly hazy, lemon golden hue. Complex aromas of grilled nuts, citrus fruits, florals and a hint of lemon rind. Mouth-watering acidity drives the wine with laser focus, flavours of citrus fruits, toasted nuts and a creamy texture gives the wine body and weight. A classic North Canterbury Chardonnay that is fully ripe and saline."

5 Stars & 96/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, July 2024 (2022 Vintage)
"A gorgeous expression; the complex bouquet shows apricot, rockmelon, lemon peel, almond meal and savoury pastry aromas. It's impressively concentrated and plush in the mouth, delivering multi-layered mouthfeel and awesome depth, wonderfully framed by finely pitched acidity. At its best: now to 2034."

Rated Outstanding & 95+/100 Cameron Douglas MS, March 2024 (2022 Vintage)
"A fascinating bouquet driven first by a sense of place with its core of chalky textures, shape and form, then scents of grapefruit and apple, complex lees layers and wild flowers. Natural ferment flavours deliver texture and continue the sense of place themes, citrus and apple, some peach and textures from lees all combine to deliver a wine of intrigue, flavour and intensity. Delicious, fresh and new, a wine to explore and enjoy. Best from 2025 through 2030+."

5 Stars & 95/100 Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review, May 2024 (2022 Vintage)
"Intense and appealing chardonnay with white peach, fresh herbs, citrus/lemon curd and a subtle green apple flavour. Deliciously textural wine with a silken and ethereal influence together with a contrasting juicy acidity."

5 Stars Michael Cooper (2022 Vintage)
"The impressive 2022 vintage was hand-harvested from vines planted at Waipara Springs in the late 1980s, barrel-fermented, and bottled unfined and unfiltered. Bright, light yellow/green, it is mouthfilling, sweet-fruited and savoury with concentrated, peachy, complex flavours, balanced acidity, and a very harmonious, lasting finish. Already delicious, it should be at its best 2026+."

94/100 Mike Bennie, The Wine Front, September 2024 (2022 Vintage)
"Has stacks of flavour and lots of personality. Great waves and slosh of red apple, gingery spice, just-ripe nectarine, honey nut Cornflakes, sugared almonds and a strong, almost Champagne like rapier thrust of saline minerality. Whoosh! That draw and tuck of brine is just awesome and so refreshing, and so much pretty flesh and flavour hangs off it. A very complete and compelling wine."

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If for any reason you are not entirely happy with your order or you suspect that it may be affected by a quality issue, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will remedy the problem straight away. Contact us on (03) 3655134.

Note, for orders of 1 - 2 bottles we charge an additional $5 for packaging. To ensure the safety of the bottles we use specially designed posting boxes.

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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.