Chardonnay

Creamy, full bodied Chardonnay from winemaker Steve Voysey who is a dab hand at bringing out the best nuances of buttery aroma, textural softness and a smooth, full body in this fruit forward wine. 

A single vineyard barrel aged Chardonnay from the alluvial soils of Hawke’s Bay.

Hand selected fruit with 12 months maturation in new and one year old French oak, the wine is beautifully textured, full bodied with butterscotch and spicy oak flavours.

Displaying mineral tones from the terroir, this wine has a delightful and very long finish.

Stone Paddock Chardonnay is a lightly oaked wine. Showing ripe tropical fruit and peach aromas with fine grapefruit and mineral undertones. The gentle influence of oak accentuates the sweet stonefruit, melon and grapefruit flavours. The texture is creamy and luscious with a fine minerality on the finish. 

Exceptional hand-picked grapes from a coastal Chardonnay block. After gentle pressing, the free run juice is poured into barrel without clarification. The juice underwent fermentation with its own naturally occurring wild yeast. Regular lees stirring occurred during the Winter months before undergoing malolactic fermentation in Spring. The wine spent 20 months in French oak with minimal intervention and filtration. A bold & complex nose with hints of honeysuckle, pineapple and butterscotch. On the palate, the wine is rich with notes of, ripe white peach, toffee, melon with minerality and a spicy finish. Only two barrels of this wine were made.

Rod McDonald is a dab hand at Chardonnay (and Syrah and Pinot Noir and a range of other great wine styles too) and he is one of Hawke's Bay most experienced producers of it. This wine is made from grapes grown at Te Awanga on the coast south of Napier where the cooling sea breezes provide refreshing acidity and crispness to his wines, which he balances with malolactic fermentation in a combination of new and seasoned French oak. The wine spends 12 months in oak with lees stirring (aka batonnage) to enhance its creamy flavours and add depth and body. 

This Chardonnay offers great flavours and fab value for money. A stunner.

This refreshing new Chardonnay is great drinking and expresses smooth peachy flavours from ripe grapes grown in a warm dry summer in Hawke's Bay. 

It's soft and fruity with a twist of citrusy aroma and no oak at all. Made by Rod McDonald at Te Awanga Estate.  

It's easy to taste why this is the top white from Te Kairanga winery in Martinborough each year. Dry, smooth and complex flavours of roasted nuts, stone fruit and fresh white peach combine with citrus purity in a deeply flavoursome wine.

John Martin is named after the late founder of the Martinborough township. This wine is made mostly Mendoza clone Chardonnay grapes, grown on the winery's Home Vineyard. All grapes are whole-bunch pressed and fermented with wild yeasts with 10 months maturation in French oak puncheons, which are 500 litre barrels. This wine goes through 100% malolactic fermentation, providing structure and length to what is a complex and refined wine.

Made in extremely small quantities, the Land Series wines seek to highlight the very best from each of the unique subregions within our family of vineyards. 

This Chardonnay is a reflection of the unique terroir of our Waitaki site. 

Lifted aromatics with tropical fruit, citrus and white flowers. The palate is chalky, with balanced fresh acidity and concentrated flavours of toasted hazelnut, tropical fruits and toasted oak. 

Te Mania Chardonnay is an elegant wine made with just a little oak to compliment and show case the fresh fruity flavours. This wine offers nectarine and ripe citrus aromas with just a touch of light oak. Stone fruit characters continue with citrus on the palate, complemented by a silky texture. The palate has appealing weight, texture and a long fresh finish.

Elston is the top Chardonnay of Te Mata Estate and is a powerfully long lived dry white with a full body, aromas of cream, hazlenuts and almonds leading into a rich citrusy, textural wine. 

Elston takes its name from the ancestral home of Charles Darwin, Elston Hall in Nottinghamshire, the UK, and tastes dry with ripe stone fruit flavours of peach and nectarines, balanced by a citrusy, creamy and lingering finish. 

A great wine to enjoy now and to keep.

A beautifully fragrant Chardonnay that fuses traditional and modern winemaking techniques; whole bunch pressing, barrel fermentation, barrel maturation on gross lees, and malolactic fermentation. The nose offers lemon, white peach, popcorn and fresh pineapple and leads to a palate of lemon curd, cr?me br?l?e, toasted cashew and slight touches of flint and smoke. This is vibrant and juicy with refreshing acidity and plenty of concentration.

A superbly subtle Chardonnay with a full body and savoury oatmeal layers of flavour. The 2020 Marlborist  Chardonnay is made from hand picked grapes grown on a combination of stony and clay soils, which combine to make this wine rich, dry and full bodied, impressive qualities which are beautifully balanced by the elegance of a creamy palate with a long, citrusy finish, imbued with notes of grapefruit and ripe lemon flavours.

A full bodied powerfully creamy Chardonnay to woo white wine lovers with its depths and richness, held together with citrusy balance and aromas. 

The Batch Winery encapsulates the philosophy of most Waiheke Island winemakers to produce small volumes of high quality wines from the most famous island in the Hauraki Gulf.

Tony Bish's Golden Egg Chardonnay is one of the best in the country and  is fermented in an egg shaped concrete fermentation vat, which is designed to maximise the fullness and creamy style of Chardonnay at its smoothest, while retaining vibrant acidity. This is a stellar wine. One of the best from the Bay and from the country. Outstanding.