World Of Wine Winter 2019

TASTING NOTES CHARDONNAY
Pyramid Valley Field of
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Fire 2016 Chardonnay
New Zealand
This is delicious. The initial bouquet of flowers
and gun-flint to citrus and heirloom treefruit,
with complexity on the nose and palate,
together have wonderful harmony. Dry, with a
layer of oak spice and lees-derived wild spice to
tension and poise from the acidity and fine silky
tannins - take your time over this wine. Pause,
enjoy the weight and subtle power, flavours and
finish. Not all Chardonnay are for everyone, this
example will open your eyes and palate. Drink
now and through 2024.
POINTS: 96
Contact: www.pyramidvalley.co.nz
RRP $125.00
Pyramid Valley Lions
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Tooth Chardonnay 2016
New Zealand
Complex and inviting bouquet with aromas of
grapefruit, peach and apricot woven between
aromas of vanilla and cashew, a limestone and
clay mineral quality. Delicious on the palate with
a saline feel, flavours of vanilla and other wood
spices, apple and yellow stonefruits. Very fine
wood tannins, natural acidity and long finish.
Complex and intriguing, alluring and very tasty.
drink now and through 2024.
POINTS: 96
Contact: www.pyramidvalley.co.nz
RRP $125.00
Sacred Hill Riflemans
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Chardonnay 2016 Hawke’s Bay
Complex, enticing and distinctive bouquet.
Hazelnut and cashew, gun-flint and peach,
grapefruit and apple, lees and spice. Full bodied,
textured, leesy and fruity. Flavours of Brazil nut
and cashew, wood smoke, flint and leesy spices
are persistent contrasted by a core of fruit.
Weighty, medium+ acidity with a complex and
lengthy finish. Drink now and through 2026.
POINTS: 96
Contact: www.sacredhill.com
RRP $69.99
Sacred Hill Wine Thief
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Chardonnay 2017 Hawke’s Bay
Great bouquet of Chardonnay, complex and
alluring. Aromas and flavours of baked peach
and nectarine, baked custard and raw brown
sugar. An abundance of spicy oak, specific and
engaging structure with a youthful acidity, oak
tannins, weight, warmth and core of fruit. Fullbodied
and powerful wine, lengthy finish and
complex. Drinkable now though best from 2021
through 2026+.
POINTS: 96
Contact: www.sacredhill.com
RRP $34.99
Vidal Legacy Chardonnay
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2018 Hawke's Bay
Seductive, enticing, complex and glamorous
bouquet of Chardonnay. Aromas of roasted
cashew and yellow peach, baked golden apple
then grapefruit, a cheesy, whipped cream
moment and easy-to-spot wood spices. On
the palate - tense, vibrant, weighty, youthful and
dry. As complex and glamorous as the bouquet
suggests, with flavours of white and yellow
orchard fruits, wood spice and a flinty, leesy,
toasty harmonious core. Quite youthful with a
refreshing acid line, fine wood tannin layer, lees
spice and mineral finish. Delicious now though I
recommend decanting, even better in 2021. An
investment wine that will be the talk of many
fabulous dinner parties through to 2030 and
probably beyond.
POINTS: 96
Contact: www.vidal.co.nz
RRP $59.99
Vidal Soler Chardonnay 2018
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Hawke's Bay
There’s no mistaking the power and youthful
impact that the bouquet of this wine offers -
peach and nectarine, vanilla, burnt butter and
brazil nut, lees spices and blond tobacco. A
natural complexity and raw energy. Equally
intense on the palate with flavours of yellow
stonefruit, grapefruit, apple and layers of wood
spice and lees textures. An abundance of oak
and acidity with some fine oak tannins. Very
lengthy & finishing just dry and complex. Ideal
drinking from 2021 through 2028.
POINTS: 96
Contact: www.vidal.co.nz
RRP $34.99
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Auntsfield Single Vineyard
Chardonnay 2016 Marlborough
A plush and pure fruit attack with a calm
creamy bouquet. Aromas of white peach and
apricot, sweet red apple then wood spice and
vanilla. Firm youthful and dry on the palate with
a vibrant fruit core, wet stone mineral moment,
mild fine wood tannins and plenty of refreshing
and balancing acidity. Lush, fresh and juicy
finish with a building complexity. Drink now and
through 2026.
POINTS: 95
Contact: www.auntsfield.co.nz
RRP $37.99
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