Brick Bay Chardonnay 2020, Matakana, Auckland

Youthful, bright and pure fruited bouquet with primary scents of grapefruit and white fleshed peach then layers of minerality including clay soils then spices of barrel. A fine lees and slightly reductive flinty quality adds complexity and promise. Delicious, taut, youthful and dry on the palate, flavours reflect the citrus and cool climate nature of the region, there’s apple and stone fruit flavours as well as complexity from oak and fine tannins. This wine is not about new oak - there’s just the right amount judiciously used, it’s a wine of some finesse and charm, complexity and allure. A wine that is still developing as well as showing off its drink now qualities. Best from late 2023 or early 2024 through 2029+.

95 Points

Outstanding

RRP from $49.00