Gold Medal – New World Wine Awards 2024
Winery notes (2022 Vintage)
"A complex and elegant Chardonnay with aromas of yellow peach, pineapple, coconut and toasted oats. Citrus and white peach follow through the palate with spicy oak nuances building into a complex array of brioche and biscuit undertones."
5 Stars & 95/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, April 2025 (2022 vintage)
"Elegant and complex, the wine shows white flesh peach, lemon peel, nougat, roasted cashew, and almond meal nuances. It's concentrated and finely flowing in the mouth, delivering excellent weight and richly textured mouthfeel. Wonderfully framed by beautifully pitched acidity, finishing expansive and impressively long. At its best: now to 2032."
Rated Excellent & 93/100 Cameron Douglas MS, April 2025 (2022 Vintage)
"Ripeness and purity of fruit lead the bouquet with scents of grapefruit and white peach then a lemon skin and red apple quality. Minerality is central to the bouquet as well introduced through the fine lees and acid line. Medium+ weighted with a satin touch and flavours that reflect the bouquet. Fine fruit tannins, judicious use of French oak with a lengthy finish. A taut new wine still with best drinking from late 2025 through 2030+."
5 Stars & 18.5/20 (93) Candice Chow, Raymond Chan Reviews, April 2025 (2022 Vintage)
"Bright, even, pale yellow. The nose is gently full and elegant, with aromas of peach, Gala apple, vanilla, lemon curd and delicate spice. Medium-bodied, aromas of lemon, lemon curd, Gala apple entwined with peach, delicate spice and minerals. The wine shows good energy and a fine acid backbone, carrying stony minerals along the palate, added interest. A gently creamy mouthfeel uplifts and provides substance and breadth. This Chardonnay shows cool climate character fruit and acidity along a refined, mineral palate. Match with white fish & beurre blanc and pork chops over the next 5+ years. Fruit from Northburn and Waitaki, handpicked, whole bunch pressed to tank for light settling, barrel fermented and extended lees stirred over 9 months. 13% alc."