"Beautifully fruited and instantly appealing, the bouquet shows ripe peach, rockmelon, nougat, vanilla and hazelnut aromas, leading to a succulent palate that is rounded and creamy. The wine offers bright fruit flavours and silky texture with elegant toasty complexity, finishing long and smooth" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Jul 2018

"Medium-bodied, the palate has softly rich, mouthfilling flavours of yellow stonefruits layered with complexing mealy detail, subtle creamy barrel-ferment and nutty oak. The palate has excellent presence and weight, with a soft, fulsome core and integrated acidity. The flavours carry to a full, sustained finish. This is a softly full and mouthfilling Chardonnay with plenty of presence of stonefruit flavours along with mealy, barrel-ferment and nutty detail. Match with roasted poultry and pork over the next 3+ years" Raymond Chan, Jul 2018

"First things first. The fact that this wine sells for under $20 is baffling to me. It roars with stonefruit and citrus and has the right amount of roasty toasty, hazelnutty flavours to kick it into ‘must sip’ territory. Ripe, tropical, round and rumpty – just the way I like my chardonnay. Yum" Yvonne Lorkin, Hawke’s Bay Today

Rich golden colour with soft yellow hues in the glass with intense aromatics of stone fruit and pineapple. The aromas are balanced with a creamy oak complexity. The palate is beautifully elegant, a delicious combination of white peach, apple and spice, is balanced with toasty oak and a long finish.

2017 vintage in Hawkes Bay, saw a warm summer, which provided stunning flavours and structure. The grapes for this wine were picked from vineyards near the Pacific Ocean in the Hawke’s Bay region of New Zealand. The soils in this area are ancient river beds with a mix of free draining stony soils and clay loams. A combination of Mendoza and Clone 6 chardonnay was carefully harvested, wild yeast ferment, 22% barrel fermented in French oak and 100% malolactic fermentation.

Food Pairing: This wine is delicious on its own, or with a chicken and leek pie, or roast pork with crackling.