2017 Vintage
- Gold, Royal Easter Wine Awards, 2020
- Gold, Royal Easter Wine Awards, 2019
- 95+, New World Wine Awards, 2019
- 92/100, 4 stars, Bob Campbell MW
- Silver, Wine of the Year, 2019
5 stars, #2 Chardonnay, Best Buy | Cuisine 2019
Grown from vines that are over 30 years old, this perfectly balanced wine makes a serious impression. Youthful with generous fruit flavours that are elegantly oaked and punctuated by some intriguing flinty notes. A very focused palate with genuine length.
5 stars | Michael Cooper, The Listener, 2020
This classy, complex wine was grown in the lower Wairau Valley. Mouthfilling, with a slightly smoky bouquet, it has intense, citrusy, slightly biscuity and creamy flavours. It is very finely balanced, with a long finish.
95/100 | Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier, 2019
This wine has a great bouquet with aromas that first reveal their shape and form then slowly layer in white and yellow orchard fruits, some barrel spices and fine oak flavours. On the palate the wine is dry with contrasting fruit and oak flavours layered in, vibrato, plenty of energy with palate textures, a distinctive saline, flinty layer and long finish. The complexity will continue to build over time. Balanced and very well made. Drink now and through 2024.
93/100 | James Suckling, 2019
A very complex and sophisticated style with a bright, elegantly perfumed nose that offers plenty of bright pears and peaches. The palate has a very juicy and attractive feel with plenty of plush, bright and juicy stone fruit and a lightly spicy, savory finish. Drink now.
2016 vintage
- Blue Gold, Sydney Top 100, 2019
- Silver, Royal Easter Wine Awards, 2019
- Top 10, Cuisine Wine Awards, 2019
- 95+/100, Premium NZ Wine Awards, 2019
91/100 | James Suckling, 2016
Some clever winemaking input here, delivering flinty, chalky, stony aromas across lime and white nectarine fruits. The palate has a neat ball of ripe white peach fruit. Acidity sits nicely. Smooth nutty notes through the finish. Drink now.
4 stars | Wine State, 2019
Nicely done, not forced but a lovely gentle chardonnay with plenty of flavour, some new oak very much in support.
2015 vintage
- Silver, Air New Zealand Wine Awards, 2019
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