Two Rivers Clos Des Pierres Marlborough Chardonnay 2024

Description

Kiwifruit, Lime, Oak

"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" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Dec 2025

"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" Candice Chow, Wine Chat

"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+" Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier, Jan 2026

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.

Clos des Pierres is French for place of stones and gives reference to The Spring Vineyard which has extremely stony soils.

The 2024 growing season was outstanding. A mild spring followed by Marlborough's characteristically dry, sunfilled summer provided ideal conditions for vine balance. These conditions enabled the fruit to reach optimum ripeness while maintaining freshness and vibrancy. The resulting wines are intensely flavoured, with purity of expression, lifted aromatics, lively acidity, and remarkable energy.

Grapes were harvested in the early morning to retain freshness and purity.

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.