TRINITY HILL 125 GIMBLETT CHARDONNAY 2024

Gold Medal – New Zealand International Wine Show 2025
Gold Medal – National Wine Awards of Aotearoa New Zealand 2025

Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"Truly great Chardonnay is exhilarating. When all the elements – ripe fruit, savoury oak, refreshing acidity – are in balance, working together in harmony, the result is a sublime combination of richness and power coupled with sophistication and refinement. This is our vision when making Chardonnay and what we feel we have captured in this, our sixth, single vineyard release.

Scents of white peach, ripe grapefruit, and citrus blossom combine with toasty/nutty oak aromas to produce a complex and engaging bouquet. The wine is rich and complex yet remains focused and composed with outstanding persistence and length of flavour. Stone fruit, citrus, and toasty oak flavours, gentle phenolics. A fine backbone of acidity combines effortlessly to produce a seamless, harmonious palate with a mouthwatering finish. A fabulous wine of exquisite balance, poise, and tension.

Hand harvested fruit in our “Tin Shed” vineyard was gently pressed and the juice fermented with 100% indigenous yeasts in a combination of 228-litre and 500-litre French oak barrels, 54% new barrels. Malolactic fermentation was encouraged to soften the acidity and impart further richness. The wine spent 12 months in barrel then a further 5 months in tank on yeast lees building further texture and complexity before being racked and bottled in May 2025 with no fining and minimal filtration."