Chardonnay

Kumeu, New Zealand. The 2023 Hunting Hill is beautifully fragrant with its lemon/lime blossom characters and lovely fruit purity.  This wine shares some of the characters with the neighboring Mate’s Vineyard with its attractive floral notes and restrained elegance. The Hunting Hill vineyard  has a particularly pure character that, in its youth, displays a tight and crisp palate which needs some bottle age to reveal the power and concentration that lies beneath the surface....

Margaret River, Western Australia. The wine is pale straw in colour. Subtle, elegant and delicate on the nose with butterscotch, vanilla, apple and stone fruit aromas. In the mouth, the wine is light and delicate with citrus and apple flavours, a mild creaminess and a long, smooth finish. Balance was what we were looking for with this year’s Chardonnay. Balance of fruit, flavour, acidity, aroma and oak. The wine has layers of flavour almost tell a story. It’s light yet structured, it’s elegant yet complex and has this subtlety but length that lingers on and on. The more you look at it, the more it gives...