Orlando Lyndale Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2019 $47 If this is your introduction to cool climate Adelaide Hills chardonnay, then strap on your stirrups and stick down your velcro because this will shake your timbers. Fresh grapefruit and peach-driven punchiness, citrus and apple notes and a luscious lick of toasty oak and creamy almond layers make … Read More
Chardonnay
Prosper Maufoux Macon-Villages Chardonnay 2020
Prosper Maufoux Macon-Villages Chardonnay 2020 $29.99 A cracker of a wine crafted by the Piffaut family, famous for also owning Veuve Ambal, one of my favourite Crémant producers. Mâcon-Villages is an appellation for chardonnay grown in certain communes of the Mâconnais wine region in southern Burgundy, and this wine is a classy, stylish example indeed. … Read More
Giesen Uncharted Marlborough Chardonnay 2020
Giesen Uncharted Marlborough Chardonnay 2020 $28 Erupting with roast apricot, pineapple and cinnamon toast characters on the nose and sending the palate into an apple-edged, peach party on the palate. The monster 2020 vintage has seriously delivered something delicious. Fat, juicy and jumping with energy and tension, it’s a rich, ripe, facewallop of a chardonnay … Read More
Whyte Estate Marlborough Chardonnay 2020
Whyte Estate Marlborough Chardonnay 2020 $22 Well well well. You told the universe that you wanted oak, you wanted roast peach, you wanted creamy, nutty notes, and that you also wanted ripe, tropical sensations and a rich, apricot and nectarine-like mid-palate. Generous and juicy and way too easy to drink. It’s simple and sippable and … Read More
Maison Noire Fraicheur Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2021
Maison Noire Fraicheur Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2021 $22 If you’re looking for chardonnay that’s not cloaked in oak, then you’ve arrived in the right avenue my friend. Crafted by Guillaume Thomas from fruit grown in a tiny vineyard in the Puketapu region, this wine is layered with lemon, pineapple and grapefruity goodness and boasts a … Read More
Abbotts & Delaunay Les Fruits Sauvages Pays D’Oc Chardonnay 2019
Abbotts & Delaunay Les Fruits Sauvages Pays D’Oc Chardonnay 2019 $23 If you’d been led to believe that Burgundy was the be all and end all for French chardonnay, then strap on your skates and roll right out of the cbd friends, because the south of France has got it going on in the affordably … Read More
Church Road 1 Single Vineyard Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2019
Church Road 1 Single Vineyard Terraces Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2019 $100 Word on the street is that 2019 was a blistering blinder of a year for chardonnay in Hawke’s Bay and that the fruit was set to flourish into something more fabulous than ever before. The word on the street is entirely accurate. Immensely powerful … Read More
Swift Wines Bridge Pa Triangle Chardonnay 2020
Swift Wines Bridge Pa Triangle Chardonnay 2020 $35 I could tell you all the technical wizardry involved in creating this organically grown chardonnay, but that might be a distraction to its deliciousness and that wouldn’t do at all. Erupting with ripe grapefruit, roast nectarine and creme brulee topping, caramelised, softly smoky spicy oak and incredibly … Read More
Monowai Upper Reaches Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2020
Monowai Upper Reaches Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2020 $35 Aromas of baked peach, cashew butter and creme caramel collide with slightly scorched toast, a lick of grapefruit, pineapple and layers of butterscotch complexity. It’s a refreshingly silky thing to sip, with nicely balanced acidity and alcohol and a long, creamy, classic finish. Round, ripe and soothing … Read More
Matahiwi Holly South Series Wairarapa Chardonnay 2020
Matahiwi Holly South Series Wairarapa Chardonnay 2020 $30 Crafted from the southern Chardonnay vines growing in the Matahiwi home vineyard, this is the fourth vintage after it was planted back in 2013. If aromas of ultra-toasty oak, grilled grapefruit and peach are your thing, then you’ll be a happy camper. Combine them with frisky acidity … Read More