"Gorgeously composed & immensely complex" Wine Orbit
"Superbly concentrated & weighty, displaying excellent focus as well as creamy mouthfeel" Wine Orbit
Perfect with rich seafood & white meat dishes
Mystery Hawke's Bay Chardonnay 2017 (02)
Black Market Mystery Wines™ are simply wines we love, with the branding hidden and revealed only when it arrives at your door!
Mystery Hawke's Bay Chardonnay 2017 (02)
Accolades
Awarded 95/100 Points & 5 Stars
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Feb 2019
Description
- Spicy oak
- Ripe stone fruit
- Vanilla & cedar
- Creamy mouthfeel
"This is gorgeously composed and immensely complex; the fragrant bouquet shows ripe stone fruit, rockmelon, oatmeal, vanilla and cedar characters with a subtle flinty note. The palate is superbly concentrated and weighty, displaying excellent focus as well as creamy mouthfeel, finishing splendidly long and expansive. At its best: now to 2024" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Feb 2019
Powerful aromatics of gunflint and grape-fruit along with savoury and spicy oak notes. Some toasty baked croissant notes also. The palate shows excellent weight with a bright acid structure that draws the flavours across the palate. Lovely toasty and savoury notes come through but not at the expense of the fruit expression. Expect this wine to develop toasty and mineral notes under its natural cork closure.
All grapes for this Mystery Chardonnay were harvested on one day and whole bunch pressed to tank for brief settling. After 12 hours the still cloudy juice was transferred to barrel (4 x 300L and 2 x 225L, 50% new) for a natural fermentation. After going through 100% malo-lactic fermentation the wine was aged on its full lees, without sulphur, for nine months. Prior to bottling the components were blended together and then bottled without fining, stabilisation or filtration.
Food Pairing: A full-bodied and pure expression of Chardonnay which will match most rich seafood and white meat dishes.
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We enjoyed this very nice HB chardonnay and would purchase again.
Phil - 30/06/2020
Very nice traditional Chardie. Enjoyed it very much.
Clayton - 24/01/2021
HAVE HAD THIS WINE PREVIOUSLY , LOVELY WINE
Chris - 05/10/2020
A lovely wine - smooth and sophisticated HB chardonnay
Shelley - 02/08/2020
A rich and flavoursome chardonnay.
Phillip - 24/06/2020
very nice drinking
Ian - 22/06/2020
Nice mature wine. Perhaps a bit much 'gun flint' for my taste but nice otherwise
Alan - 05/03/2021
I did not feel this mystery chardonnay lived up to its reviews.
Gail - 16/07/2020
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