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"The aroma is very expressive with notes of mandarin, white jasmine, lemon zest, vanilla, pink grapefruit and guava. The palate is full bodied with beautiful citrus and grapefruit characters mingling with vanilla oak spice. Well balanced with very fine tannins and a silky finish.
The Marlborough wine region of New Zealand is world renowned for producing wines of great intensity and freshness. The region’s diurnal climate producing hot days and cold nights favours retention of fruit flavours and vibrancy. Hand-picked Chardonnay was whole bunch pressed and briefly settled prior to fermentation in French oak Barriques. Elevage on lees for 12 months has built depth and complexity into this classical Chardonnay.
Predominantly Mendoza clone Chardonnay was hand-picked from 5 premium vineyards in the Rapaura area and 10% from the Brancott Valley. Vineyards are vertically shoot positioned to maximise sunlight interception. Soils are predominantly alluvial river gravels with silt overlay."
5 Stars & 95/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, February 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"Complex and enticing, the bouquet shows ripe stone fruit, lemon peel, vanillin oak and roasted hazelnut aromas, leading to a wonderfully weighted palate that's succulent and fleshy. The wine is richly textured and mouthfilling, while remaining stylish and poised with an impressively long, expansive finish. At its best: now to 2033."
Rated Excellent & 94/100 Cameron Douglas MS, February 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"A wine of clarity and precision with a bouquet of ripe citrus and pear, white peach then layers of lees and barrel spice. There’s just a whisper of flint accentuating the mineral quality with fine wet gravels and clay. Youthful and complex. A fine satin mouthfeel touches the palate first then a rush of cool-climate acidity before the flavours of citrus and stone fruits emerge. Fine tannins from fruit and barrel sit nicely with the lees-ferment and barrel spice flavours. A wine with precision, a lovely acid line and modern Chardonnay flavours finishing dry. Best drinking from late 2024 through 2029."
