{"title":"New Zealand Chardonnay","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"blank-canvas-escaroth-chardonnay-1-5l-magnum-2021","title":"Blank Canvas Escaroth Chardonnay 1.5L MAGNUM 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlank Canvas Escaroth Chardonnay is a single-vineyard Marlborough Chardonnay in magnum, from a small husband-and-wife label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vineyard also supplies the family's Pinot Noir. Cool nights help Chardonnay here hold on to bright natural acidity, and the wine is fermented and matured in French oak for texture and complexity, with the fruit and the site kept in focus. Matt Thomson and Sophie Parker-Thomson MW choose each of their single vineyards carefully.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTextural and complex, with a fresh line through the middle. In a large-format bottle it will age more slowly than a standard 750ml. Serve at 10–12°C with crayfish, roast pork or chicken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The label, run by Matt Thomson and Sophie Parker-Thomson MW, buys from individual growers and bottles every site on its own, with fairly hands-off winemaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoised and mid-weight, with stone fruit, citrus and a gently creamy finish. Try it at 10–12°C with roast chicken, pork, crab or a creamy pasta.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Chardonnay \/ Marlborough \/ Blank Canvas","offer_id":44270539964475,"sku":"BC0824","price":65.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/blank-canvas-reed-vineyard-chardonnay-2024.png?v=1790051270"},{"product_id":"blank-canvas-tano-chardonnay-2024","title":"Blank Canvas Tano Chardonnay 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlank Canvas Tano Chardonnay is the top Marlborough Chardonnay in the Blank Canvas range, more concentrated and structured than its siblings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade in small quantities, this sits above the vineyard-named Chardonnay in the line-up. Fermentation and maturation in barrel build texture and depth, while the region's natural acidity keeps it long and focused. Behind the label are Matt Thomson, with decades of experience in New Zealand and Italy, and Sophie Parker-Thomson MW.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRich yet precise, with stone fruit, citrus, toasted nuts and a long finish. Lobster, roast pork, veal and aged hard cheeses are all good matches; serve at 10–12°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Low yields and small-batch winemaking give the range a European feel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull and creamy, with ripe stone fruit, citrus and nutty oak. Serve at 10–12°C with roast chicken, crayfish, veal or soft-rind cheese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Good at 9–11°C with roast chicken, creamy pasta, prawns or fish and chips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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They were the first in New Zealand to be certified organic, and later biodynamic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRipe stone fruit, a textured palate and a clean finish. Serve at 10–12°C with roast chicken, grilled fish or creamy pasta, and drink it young while it is at its freshest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The winery was the country's first to gain organic certification, then biodynamic, and since its founding at Manutuke in 1984 the cellar has stuck to wild yeast, minimal additions and patience. This comes from the family's more approachable range, made the same natural way as their top wines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTextural and fresh, with ripe fruit and a clean finish. Good with roast chicken, grilled fish, salads or a mild curry at 10–12°C; best drunk young.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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This range uses the same organic and biodynamic fruit and hands-off winemaking as the rest of their wines, with wild yeast and minimal additions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedium-bodied, with ripe fruit and fresh acidity. Try it at 10–12°C with roast chicken, pork, scallops or hard cheeses, while it is young and fresh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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This range draws on that same fruit and approach. The estate was founded in 1984 at Manutuke, where the rivers have left fertile alluvial soils under a warm, sunny sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTextured and fresh, with ripe fruit and bright acidity. Good at 10–12°C with pork, scallops, roast chicken or a hard cheese; drink it young.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The region is warm and sunny, on fertile alluvial soils, and the cellar work is minimal: wild yeast, few additions and patient maturation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRipe stone fruit, gentle texture and fresh acidity. Pour it at 10–12°C with roast chicken, crayfish or pork belly, and enjoy it young.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The Gewürztraminer was handpicked, destemmed and fermented naturally as whole berries for ten days with a little Chardonnay juice added. The Pinot Gris was split evenly between whole berries and whole bunches and stayed on skins for seventeen days. The parcels met at the press and finished co-fermenting in tank and old puncheon, then went through natural malolactic and four months of maturation. No fining, no filtration, minimal sulphur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAromatic and textural, with dried apricot, orange peel, ginger and a gently grippy finish off the skins. Serve it cool but not cold, around 12 degrees. It stands up to spice: Sichuan eggplant, a Moroccan tagine, roast pork belly, or a washed-rind cheese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Both were handpicked and pressed as whole bunches straight to tank with full solids, so the juice ran clear of the skins before it took any colour. A wild ferment was followed by racking to old oak puncheons for natural malolactic, four months maturing cold, then bottling. No fining, no filtration, minimal sulphur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePale and quietly savoury, with white peach, citrus pith, a nutty lees edge and a dry, chalky close. Serve at 10 to 12 degrees. Try it with a whole roasted fish, chicken and tarragon, a bowl of clams, or Gruyère and walnuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Mike Paterson turned instead to Ben Glover's organic Brawn vineyard at Dillon's Point, which had been impressing him for years. Sitting in the lee of the Wither Hills southeast of the Wairau Valley floor, Brawn lies on Kaiapoi silt loam over pea gravel, closer to the sea than any other site in the range. Its old Mendoza clone is now rare here, most of the old blocks having been pulled for Sauvignon. Thick skins give the extract and spice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe more exuberant of the two single-vineyard Chardonnays this year: extra spice on the nose, then a mouth-coating palate of honey, wild fennel and yellow flowers with the saline, umami thread this block is known for. Serve at 12 degrees. Roast chicken, scallops, or a mushroom tart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The soil is Kaiapoi silt loam over pea gravel, and the vines are an old Mendoza clone largely replanted to Sauvignon Blanc across the region decades ago; their thick skins deliver the extract and spice. Paterson and grower Ben Glover both identify a saline, umami character peculiar to the block. Hand harvest came two weeks after Wrekin, with a very slow press to draw out the fruit intensity, and two winters on lees followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe more textural and exuberant of the two single-vineyard Chardonnays: spice on the nose, then yellow fruit, wild fennel and blossom leaning into a chiselled finish. Time on lees has brought composure. Serve at 12 degrees with grilled crayfish, roast pork, or a rich fish pie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The Carter Ashmore vineyard lies in Fairhall on an ancient riverbed, its soils layered silt and alluvial gravels laid down over aeons, and it is farmed organically by Dog Point's viticultural team, planted to the Mendoza clone. Strong biological competition in the soil and a canopy regime that channels the vine's energy into fruit instead of leaf let Mike Paterson pick at full flavour ripeness and lower sugar. Bunches were pressed whole over six hours with no additions, fermented on high solids in one puncheon and one stainless barrel, then left on original lees without stirring until late March.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenerous and fresh at once — layers of Golden Delicious and nectarine, a gently nutty lees character, and punchy acidity holding everything in place through a long saline close. Serve at 12 degrees. 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The soil is Southern Valley clay around 1.5 metres deep over gravelly silt, holding enough moisture through a dry summer that irrigation is never needed. Corofin's allocation runs to five rows — 1,200 vines. Mike Paterson credits the dry-grown, ungrafted, deep-rooted material with delivering ripeness, precision and harmony at the same time. Winemaking follows the Wrekin, except that the whole volume was fermented in two 500-litre seasoned French puncheons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJuicy citrus and white nectarine with white pepper, fresh ginger and a touch of ocean spray, mouth-filling and textured — a shade richer than the Wrekin bottling, and rounded off with a twist of mandarin bitterness. Serve at 12 degrees. Whole baked fish, roast chicken, or gruyère.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Picking came a few days after Wrekin, on 26 March. Bunches were pressed with only the soft pressings kept, and fermentation, malolactic conversion and maturation all ran in seasoned puncheons and barriques for twelve months, followed by eight months in tank and bottling with no fining or filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet beside the linear, mineral Wrekin, this carries more weight around its bones while holding its shape: stone fruit, a nutty lees note, and a long close. Serve at 12 to 13 degrees. Roast pork belly, crayfish, or chicken with mushrooms and cream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Wrekin is a small, BioGro-certified, biodynamically farmed site at the top of the valley. Both blocks came off on 6 March. Bunches were slowly pressed over six hours, the juice moved with plenty of solids to seasoned French puncheons and two stainless barrels, and the wine stayed thirteen months on lees before four in tank. Full malolactic conversion, bottled unfined and unfiltered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStone fruit, grilled nuts and a wisp of smoky reduction, then a full-flavoured palate with snappy acidity and mouth-watering phenolic grip through a layered finish. The low-yielding season shows in the drive. Serve at 12 degrees with roast chicken, pork cutlets, or crab.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Wrekin is a small, BioGro-certified and biodynamically farmed block at the top of the valley; Folium, planted by Fromm in 1996, is dry-grown and organically tended on Southern Valley clay over gravelly silt, with Corofin working only five rows. Wrekin was picked on 19 March, Folium three days later. All the fruit was pressed gently as bunches to seasoned puncheons and two stainless barrels for fermentation and malolactic conversion, then twelve months there and eight in tank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCitrus and white stone fruit with a nutty lees note, the acid line taut and the finish long and faintly chalky. It drinks well above its station. Serve at 12 degrees: grilled fish, roast chicken with lemon, or mussels in white wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The wine fermented on high solids and aged eighteen months in 500-litre seasoned French oak puncheons with two stainless barrels alongside. Mike Paterson builds these blends from the same vineyards as his single-site wines, which is why the village tier here rarely tastes like a step down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulpy intensity and energy, with cool citrus and fleshy lime woven through silken fruit and a nutty complexity behind. The texture is sophisticated without any sense of heaviness. Serve at 12 degrees. Try it with roast chicken, grilled snapper, or a leek and comté tart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The vineyard was planted in 2002 at the top of the Brancott Valley, almost in a locality of its own — certified organic under BioGro and farmed biodynamically, on clay-rich soils over greywacke mother rock. Mike Paterson credits the site with exceptional individuality, and it gives him both Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGripping and taut, with salivating drive and chalky texture rippling across the palate. There is fruit here, but line and energy are what register. Serve at 12 degrees. Oysters, grilled whiting, or raw fish with lemon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Hand-harvested and pressed as whole bunches, the wine fermented wild on high solids in three seasoned 500-litre French puncheons and a 300-litre stainless barrel, went to tank at five months and stayed on lees for another five. Bottled unfined and unfiltered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlowers and wet stone on the nose, then a sleek, elegant palate balancing alluring texture against a precise, savoury finish — a Chablis-shaped Corofin vintage, and better for the cool season. Serve at 12 degrees with oysters, sole, or a goat's cheese salad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Planted in 2002 at the top of the Brancott Valley in its own small locality, the vineyard is BioGro-certified and biodynamically farmed on clay-rich soils over greywacke, oriented northeast at 4,000 vines per hectare to moderate vigour, and it is one of the highest sites in the valley, often the last to be harvested.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMineral charm, elegant citrus and a hint of white flowers over a lithe, pure palate whose sleek weight is energised by pin-point acidity and sinewy phenolic structure. Savoury and long. Serve at 12 degrees: scallops, chicken poached with leeks, or a dozen oysters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Fruit was picked by hand on 23 March and pressed gently as bunches to tank, with only the soft pressings kept; fermentation ran in two seasoned 500-litre puncheons and one 280-litre stainless barrel across seven leisurely weeks, followed by full malolactic conversion and twelve months' maturation, then eight months in tank. Planted in 2002 and farmed biodynamically under BioGro, the vineyard sits high in the valley on clay over greywacke.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaut and linear, citrus-driven, with the chalk and phenolic grip that make this the more knife-edged of the two single-vineyard Chardonnays. A year or two will suit it. Serve at 12 degrees with raw kingfish, grilled flounder, or roast chicken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Clay-rich soils lie over greywacke mother rock, the rows run northeast at 4,000 vines per hectare, and the elevation makes this one of the highest sites in the valley, giving archetypal cool-climate fruit that balances fleshy texture against racy drive. Hand-harvested on 19 March and raised in 500-litre seasoned French oak puncheons, the wine aged through two winters in the cellar, building texture and freshness off its lees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf the two single-vineyard Chardonnays this year, this is the taut one — white stone fruit and Meyer lemon pulsing through a chalky finish. Serve at 12 degrees. Oysters, whole grilled fish, or pipis with parsley and garlic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Fermentation ran on indigenous yeast, three-quarters in two and three-year-old French barrels and the balance in a stainless barrel, followed by full malolactic conversion and six to eight months on lees with no stirring. Racked to tank in December and left to settle, it went to bottle unfined and unfiltered in February.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA hedonistic nose of ripe pear, fresh peach and oatmeal, then a taut, chalky palate of nectarine, pear and iodine with real drive. The cleansing saltiness is unmistakably Marlborough. Serve at 12 degrees. Roast chicken, grilled fish, or a wedge of gruyère.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Fruit from a sustainably farmed vineyard in Omaka was hand-harvested into small bins and pressed as whole bunches, then fermented on indigenous yeast — 75 per cent in three-year-old French barrels, the rest in stainless. Full malolactic conversion followed, with six to eight months on lees and no stirring whatsoever. Racked to tank to settle, it was bottled unfined and unfiltered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRipe pear, peach and oatmeal on a hedonistic nose, then a chalky, taut palate carrying nectarine, pear and an iodine note into a driven finish. Dry and harmonious. Serve at 12 degrees with roast pork, chicken pie, or grilled flathead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Fermentation was wild, in French oak with 28 per cent new, and the wine sat twelve months on lees with no sulphur added, which is where the smoky reduction and the breadth come from. The result is powerful without being heavy, and it tightens with a year or two in bottle instead of softening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStruck flint and savoury aromas open it, then ripe stone fruit, crystalline acidity and a mineral ripple through a long finish. Serve at 12 degrees in a white-burgundy glass. Roast chicken, scallops, or a crab and fennel salad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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It is the cooler and rockier of the estate's two Chardonnay plots, which usually shows as a tighter mineral core under fleshy fruit. The 2020 was foot-stomped in the original shed, whole-bunch pressed, fermented wild on full solids and left twenty months on lees in good used French oak before an unfined, unfiltered bottling. Seasonal pH was remarkably low at 3.07, malolactic fermentation never quite finished, and total acidity landed at a racy 8.9 grams per litre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteely and salty, with real flavour ripeness behind the acid: white peach, lemon pith, hazelnut and a long chalky finish. Serve at 12 degrees, no colder. Oysters, grilled whiting, or roast chicken with lemon and thyme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The original 0.3 hectares went in during 2000 at 11,111 vines per hectare, and a further 1.2 hectares followed between 2018 and 2020, though only the oldest vines and a small 2018 parcel go into this bottling. Shallow glauconitic clays, ten to fifteen centimetres of them, sit over well-drained limestone. Picked a day after the other Chardonnay block, the fruit soaked four hours on skins after crushing, then went to old French barrels for natural fermentation, twelve months on light lees and five more in tank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScintillating and pure, with citrus, white flowers, oyster shell and a long, textured finish. This is Chardonnay to put beside the best from either hemisphere. Twelve degrees, in a proper glass. Try turbot, scallops, or a chicken and leek pie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Its first 0.3 hectares went in during 2000, at 11,111 vines per hectare, and later plantings extended the block, though the wine leans on the oldest vines. Biodynamic farming, wild fermentation in seasoned French oak and bottling without fining or filtration are fixed points here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaut and mineral, with lemon curd, green apple, almond and a saline finish that keeps going. There is flesh under the tension. Serve it at 12 degrees. Raw kingfish, grilled prawns, or a plate of cultured butter and good bread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The slope is steep and east-facing, on soils credited with a nut and crumb structure and real mineral fertility. The original 0.4 hectares date from 2000 at 11,111 vines per hectare, and nearly nine-tenths of this wine comes from them. Picked on 28 April after a long, cool La Niña hang, the fruit soaked two hours on skins, fermented naturally in old French barrels, then spent twelve months on light lees and five in tank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePowerfully built but nuanced: grapefruit, toasted nuts, flint and orchard fruit over dense, driving acidity. Cellar-worthy. Serve at 12 to 13 degrees in a large glass. Roast chicken, lobster with butter, or a mushroom and gruyère tart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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It is a steep, east-facing plot on the classic Waikari limestone and clay, though with a higher clay fraction than the estate's other Chardonnay site, enough to keep the dandelions that gave the vineyard its name thriving in the rows. The oldest vines went in during 2000 at 11,111 vines per hectare and supply most of the wine. Farming is biodynamic, as it has been since planting. Only 126 six-packs were made in 2023, so very few people will taste it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlint, toast, mandarin peel and orange blossom on the nose; the palate is concentrated and focused, with bursts of acidity and the phenolic breadth this block always delivers. Impeccable length. Twelve degrees. Serve with roast chicken, scallops or aged gruyère.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Mike Weersing credited these soils with a nut and crumb structure and rare mineral fertility; they sit on the limestone that runs under the whole property, on a steep east-facing pitch. Cellar treatment matches the other Chardonnay block exactly, which makes the difference between the two a question of aspect and soil alone. The 2020 carries the racy acidity of the vintage, softened a touch because malolactic fermentation ran to completion here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLemon oil, white peach and roasted nut with a saline, chalky close and acidity that is bright without being severe. Twelve degrees. Pair it with grilled snapper, chicken poached with tarragon, or a wedge of hard sheep's cheese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Fruit was hand-picked, fermented on wild yeasts and aged twelve months in French oak with a fifth of it new, then settled in tank and left a further four months on lees before bottling unfined and unfiltered. The approach is the one applied to the single-block wines at Waikari, used at a more generous scale and a friendlier price.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRipe stone fruit and citrus with a nutty, toasty edge and North Canterbury's saline finish. Mouth-filling but not heavy. Serve at 12 degrees. Roast chicken, pork chops with apple, or a bowl of mussels in cream and leek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The must fermented with indigenous yeasts and spent twelve months in French oak, 20 per cent of it new, then four months settling on light lees in stainless steel, and was bottled unfined and unfiltered. Huw Kinch's touch across the range is consistently light, and this is where it can be seen most cheaply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReductive and toasty on opening, then ripe stone fruit, hazelnut and grilled almond over a mouth-filling structure with the region's salinity underneath. Anyone who drinks white Burgundy will recognise the shape. Twelve degrees, with roast chicken, veal, or a gruyère tart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Hand-harvesting ran several weeks later than the year before. Fermentation was on indigenous yeasts, and maturation was split between French oak with 20 per cent new and concrete tulips holding 40 per cent, for twelve months, then four months settling on light lees in concrete. Bottled unfined and unfiltered. James Suckling scored it 95 points.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlinty and classy, with savoury cashew, dried apple and apple tart over ripe stone and citrus fruit, a light bitterness giving grip and a saline thread to close. Serve at 12 degrees with roast chicken, pork belly or grilled john dory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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It stayed twelve months on lees without any sulphur addition, was racked to tank in April 2024 and spent a second winter on light lees before bottling unfined and unfiltered. That is a good deal of patience for a regional blend, and it shows in the density: old vines with the acidity to carry them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaline and rich at once, with lemon, white peach, toasted nut and a long, tightening finish. Serve it at 12 degrees and give it fifteen minutes. Roast chicken, grilled scallops, or a leek and parmesan tart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Age is only part of the appeal: the Teviot hills shelter it from the prevailing cool easterlies, and relatively warm midsummers with low growing-season rainfall make an unusual pocket in a marginal climate. Pyramid Valley has managed the vineyard since 2019 without synthetic chemicals or fertilisers. Fruit was foot-stomped in the original shed, whole-bunch pressed, fermented wild on full solids, then given twelve months on lees and six more in old puncheons over a second winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReductive and focused, with ripe orchard fruit, blossom, toasted hazelnut and salty minerals gliding into a chalky finish. Exuberant acidity means there is no hurry. Serve at 12 degrees. Roast chicken, crayfish with butter, or a good aged cheddar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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What makes the site work is shelter: the Teviot hills block the cool easterly that funnels through Waipara, and the warm midsummers and dry growing season that follow are rare in North Canterbury. The 2022 was stomped by foot, fermented spontaneously with high solids in French oak and left twelve months on full lees with no sulphur, then racked and blended to concrete tulips for another six months on fine lees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUmami-driven, so salty and nutty and flinty, with compact stone fruit and a tight vertical line more northern European than antipodean, coiling into the finish. Twelve degrees, in a big glass. Serve with roast pork, grilled crayfish, or mushrooms on sourdough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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On the nose there's toasted fennel seed, white cardamom, lemon pith and fresh biscuit, and the palate brings lemongrass, orange blossom and almond. Bright acidity is held in check by fruit weight and fine phenolics, and the finish carries a long, almost salty character the winery sees as a hallmark of the site.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eServe at about 10 to 12 degrees, and consider a decant if drinking young. It suits richer seafood such as crayfish, scallops in brown butter and roast snapper, as well as chicken with morels. Should cellar well for eight years or more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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For the 2022 Chardonnay, fermentation was carried out by wild yeast from the vineyard and malolactic conversion by wild bacteria, followed by twelve months in French oak. The winery says the result has a fine balance of acidity and oak, with citrus tension when served cool and more richness as it warms in the glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTake it out of the fridge 15 minutes before pouring and serve at around 10 to 12 degrees, so both the freshness and the texture come through. Roast chicken, crayfish, pork belly or a creamy pasta all suit, and it will cellar well for several years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The 2023 season was a testing one in the region, and the wine is tightly wound and driven by acidity, with a creamy richness and a gentle phenolic grip adding weight. The winery suggests it will keep building complexity for up to 15 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn its youth, pour it cool and match it with scallops, snapper or green-lipped mussels, which echo its shelly character. After a few years in bottle it will handle richer dishes such as roast pork or veal. Serve at around 10 to 12 degrees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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