TWO RIVERS CLOS des PIERRES CHARDONNAY 2024

Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"This wine has a vivid luminosity, with alluring aromas of fresh bay leaf, sea spray, and Mexican Orange Blossom which are complex, vibrant and finely concentrated, revealing layers of fresh wild herbs, peach, and green olive on the palate. The refined winemaking method has produced a timeless and gracefully textured Chardonnay with excellent balance and a long, pure finish.

Grapes were gently pressed and the juice fermented with wild yeast. The wine was then aged for 10 months in a mixture of French oak barriques and cuves. Full malolactic fermentation occurred."

5 Stars & 95/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, December 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"Refined and complex, the alluring bouquet shows nuances of grapefruit, apricot, lemon peel, nougat, and cedar, leading to a concentrated palate with outstanding depth and persistence. It's wonderfully harmonious and structured with a seamless mouthfeel, brilliantly structured by fine acidity, ensuring its gracious development. At its best: 2027 to 2036."

Rated Excellent & 94/100 Cameron Douglas MS, January 2026 (2024 Vintage)
"I love the bouquet with its distinctiveness of style, ripeness, mix of citrus and flinty mineral qualities, then white fleshed fruits. Crisp and dry with a near full-bodied mouthfeel, backbone of acidity and gun-flint seam highlighting the minerality and soil qualities that have defined this wine through every vintage deliver a wine of complexity and intensity. Delicious with flavours of white fleshed stone fruits and citrus, red apple and pear with a quince-like edgy quality. Well made, lengthy and delicious. Best from day of purchase through 2030+."

5 Stars & 94/100 Candice Chow, CandiceWineChat.com (2024 Vintage)
"Fruit from old Mendoza vines, wild fermented in French oak cuves, resulting in a rich, bold style that showcases a zesty core and integrated, tasty details, culminating in a long, creamy finish. Full with aromas of lemon, lemon zest, peach, struck match, roasted hazelnut, cream and baguette crust."

5 Stars & 93/100 Sammy Wilkinson, TheWineWriter.com (2024 Vintage)
"Dazzling gold in the glass, opening with warm butter, vanilla, white nectarine and baked apple pastry, edged by cedar, exotic spice and a flicker of flint. The palate is energetic, dry and racy, driven by lemon citrus brightness and crunchy nectarine, layered over toasted nut depth, chalky grip and a subtle fine wood tannin. Long, taut and stony mineral on the finish. Golden hour, dialled up."

4 Stars Yvonne Lorkin, February 2026 (2024 Vintage)
"Crafted from some of the oldest Mendoza-clone vines in Marlborough, this new Chardonnay is deliciously toasty, roasty, packed with golden, ripe peach and edged with fragrant grapefruit and creamy, brulee and oatmeal characters. It’s a Chardonnay that winemaker Dave Clouston can be rightly proud of. Sophisticated, sultry and sliced with vanilla and frangipane, it’s robust and rounded, a chardonnay for all seasons and moods. It’s especially awesome for ‘Game of Thrones’ marathons on chilly nights, or Stranger Things catch-ups on hot ones. It’s also excellent with enormous plates of cheesy gnocchi."