Chardonnay

In exceptional years the Kahurangi winemakers carefully select the four best barrels of their finest Chardonnay to make this wine.

The wine undergoes 100% fermentation in a new French oak barriques for over 12 months prior to extended barrel ageing. Once bottled it is then cellared for a further two years before release. 

Four Barrels Chardonnay has toasty butter, ripe stone fruit and soft vanilla on the nose. The palate is full and complex with well-integrated nectarine and dried apricot flavours backed by an elegant oak richness resulting in a beautifully generous, long and well-balanced wine

Food Pairing

A perfect match with lobster, crayfish, scallops and prawns or simply enjoy on its own slightly chilled.

Cellar

Best enjoyed now through to 2030.

Domaine Pattes Loup is a 24 hectare certified organic vineyard owned by Thomas Pico in the village of Courgis in Burgundy's northern outpost, Chablis. This creamy and crisp Chablis is an excellent example of what happens when small scale meets lofty ambitions of making full bodied, beautifully balanced, complex Chablis using organically certified grapes. 

Pattes Loup, which means 'wolf's paw'.

Crisp and creamy, full bodied and elegant, this wine has great complexity thanks to being made from 21 year old vines, which are now coming into their own - as this lovely refreshing dry white shows. This is the first Masters Chardonnay from winemaker Helen and her partner Ben Masters' vineyard, four kilometres south of Martinborough. 

It's a beautiful wine now and will continue to develop in flavour and age well for the next four to five years+.

source- Luna Estate

Full bodied, citrusy and creamy with smooth complex oatmeal, hazlenut and ripe white peach flavours. A delicious Chardonnay from a vineyard inside the Ihum?tao volcanic basin on the edge of the Manukau harbour in Auckland. 

Free draining soils and a unique soil profile lead to the production of a very distinctive Chardonnay.
This wine displays bright lemon and straw hues in the glass. The nose offers a complex array of aromas including white peach, fresh grapefruit zest and roasted cashews. A textured, layered palate unfolds revealing further complexity, mealy notes and lovely linear acidity with a long elegant finish.

The most flavoursome Chardonnay barrels are selected after a year of aging and then blended together to make this pinnacle of Seresin's dry, full bodied white wines, the Reserve Chardonnay. The reserve wine spends another six months in old oak puncheons, gaining depth, complexity and integration of flavour thanks to this additional maturation. 

Organic certification

The organic story at Seresin

One of the greatest things about Seresin Estate is the organic certification. This came relatively early on for Seresin, who was dismayed by the amount used and the impacts of man made chemicals, which were routinely and frequently sprayed on vines. His early adopting philosophy of organic certification paved a positive path for the integrity of the wines as well as leading others to follow suit.

100% Chardonnay harvested from the legendary Lyon's vineyard in Hawke's Bay.

Intense summer peach and hints of citrus, fine acidity and a seamless palate.

Clay Creek Vineyards is part of a family owned winery which has been growing grapes since 1924. Sustainable farming practices are central to the family's firmly held belief that they are responsible for tending the earth using environmentally sensitive farming techniques.

The vineyards are predominantly located in the Lodi region of California wine country. Positioned between San Francisco Bay and the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the Lodi appellation, while relatively far inland, is able to maintain a classic Mediterranean climate featuring warm, sunny days and cool evenings.

Chardonnay lovers will adore this wine, which is new in store and fresh off the boat from California where the warm dry climate provides ideal growing conditions for grapes to develop flavours of peachy stone fruit, apricot and tropical notes. A balance of fresh acidity adds a lingering finish to this full bodied dry wine.

French oak, Gisborne grapes and a great hillside vineyard make this full bodied, weighty, oatmeal tangy Chardonnay one of the jewels in Villa Maria's crown. McDiarmid Hill Chardonnay is 100% Gisborne grown fruit in this big beautiful wine which was fermented with wild yeasts to a bone dry style and had 11 months oak ageing with lees stirring to build softness and weight to the textural, long palate. 

Whitehaven Wines began life in 1994 as a romantic business for a couple of corporate escapees, Sue and Greg White, who had given up life in the rat race of Auckland for another kind of life aboard their yacht. When sailing around the country, they took shelter in the Marlborough Sounds from Pacific storms and fell in love with the region. An easy thing to do when harbouring in the spectacularly pristine waters of the Sounds. They decided to settle there on terra firma once more and try their hands at wine production, hiring a winemaker and beginning a business which has now been around for 26 years. Greg has sadly passed away now, leaving a legacy as well as his wife and daughter, Sam, to run the winery. Their winemaker is Peter Jackson.

Chardonnay Barrel Gin is a smooth and super sippable gin. Aged in French Oak ex-Chardonnay barrels, the palate is light and creamy, finishing with lingering spice and fresh citrus peel. As soon as you open the bottle, you'll get great aromas of preserved lemon, ginger, light vanilla and cinnamon.

Corofin puts the b in boutique; it's a small scale production owned and run by Mike and Anna Paterson in Marlborough. The couple source grapes from top notch vineyards in the region, using organically certified vineyards wherever possible. Their Chardonnay is made from a blend of clones 6, 5 and Mendoza. Barrel fermentation adds creamy notes and nutty flavours to the citrusy aromas.