Gold Medal – New Zealand International Wine Show 2025
Winery notes (2023 Vintage)
"A full and concentrated Chardonnay with complex flavours of ripe citrus and yellow stone fruits. The textures are fine and the flavours are mouth filling with a strong core that carries to a full, citrus and nutty finish with lemon-curd and toasty oak.
The fruit was whole bunch pressed and settled before undergoing fermentation using wild yeast in a combination of old and new French oak barrels. The wine was lees stirred regularly to build texture and creaminess to the palate. After full malolactic fermentation the wine was aged for 11 months in barrel (35% new oak)."
5 Stars & 94/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, October 2024 (2023 Vintage)
"Wonderfully complex and inviting, the wine shows golden peach, citrus peel, vanilla, hazelnut and brioche aromas, leading to a richly textured palate displaying excellent weight and persistency. Harmonious and flavoursome, offering terrific drinking. At its best: now to 2029."
5 Stars & 94/100 Candice Chow Wine Chat (2023 Vintage)
"Creamy on the entry, with lush stonefruit and citrus, layered by toasty barrel details add complexity. Invigorating acidity draws a long line and lends a sustained closing."
91/100 Cameron Douglas MS, November 2025 (2023 Vintage)
"A classic style with the citrus and stony core scents that speak to one of the Marlborough signatures. Well made, dry and with a decent weight and complexity, flavours of grapefruit peel and apple, lemon and nectarine, baking spice and fine tannins for mouthfeel. The acid line pulls these ideas together adding focus and freshness. Well made with best drinking from day of purchase through 2028+."
90/100 Stephen Wong MW, The Real Review (2023 Vintage)
"Musky, slightly reductive nose with a whiff of smoky oak. Modern, flinty reduction with grilled lemon fruit. On the weightier side, with good concentration throughout. Well-judged oak, fairly chewy phenolics and finishes savoury."























