The 2010 vintage (5*) is a great wine. Grown in the company’s Tuki Tuki and Omaranui vineyards, it was barrel-fermented with indigenous yeasts, matured for 11 months on its full yeast lees, with fortnightly stirring, in French oak casks (38 per cent new), and then matured for a further eight months in tank before bottling. It has a highly complex bouquet – peachy, mealy and smoky – leading into a weighty, very rich and rounded palate, offering lush, ripe stone-fruit flavours, faintly buttery and toasty. Showing lovely depth, harmony and complexity, it’s a very ‘complete’ wine, already drinking superbly.
Details
Type: White Wines
Variety: Chardonnay
Vintage: 2010
Overall Rating for All Vintages Tasted: ★★★★★ – 5 Stars
Price: $100 NZD
Sweetness: DRY
Value for Money: –V
Buyer’s Guide Edition: 2015
This wine is a Potential Classic.