Tony Bish The Family Hawke's Bay Chardonnay 2025

Description

Apple, Oak, Peach

"A complete wine, vibrant and fresh, lively and youthful with aromas and flavours of red apple and peach and lemon with a seam fragrant spices from fruit and some barrel. A dry wine with a fresh salivating appeal framed by flavours of pomaceous, citrus and stone fruits with a finesse layer from wood spice and gentle grainy mouthfeel. Balanced and well made with best drinking from day of purchase through 2029" Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier, Apr 2026

"This has a captivating toasty bouquet, unfolding vibrant and fresh fruit with salivating acidity, boosted by toasty spice and nutty elements. Accessible and generous" Candice Chow, Wine Chat

Charming aromas of roasted peach, fragrant red apple, mandarin peel and nutty cashew notes from the oak spice. The palate is rich, full and creamy textured, with ripe stone fruit, mandarin and nutty complexity. The flavours sustain well through the palate with a fine acid thread leading to delicious length and persistence.

From our family to yours, we have crafted this fine Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay for you to enjoy with friends & family on any occasion, - create the moment and make memories.

State of the art machine picking allows us to harvest our prized chardonnay selectively. We head out in the early hours of the late-summer mornings and this enables us to have the fruit at the winery as the sun rises. This way, we capture the pristine flavours and crisp acids as the vines rested overnight and are cool in temperature. Fruit from both Kokako Farms in the Ohiti Valley and Two Terraces Vineyard in the Mangatahi sub-region bring this wine to the table. Over 50% is fermented in Taransaud barriques in our temperature-controlled barrel room. Following alcoholic ferment, the wine underwent spontaneous malo-lactic fermentation. The wine was then matured for 9 months prior to blending by Tony and Oscar.