Te Mata Estate Chardonnay 2024

- Notizen des Importeurs: „Estate Chardonnay ’24 shines with a white gold hue and pale honey highlights. It presents a delightful blend of peach, lemon rind, and buttered popcorn, complemented by bright and lively acidity that extends the wine’s long palate. The aroma is reminiscent of warm peach cobbler, intertwined with notes of marzipan, flint, and tarragon. Balanced by the signature racy freshness characteristic of ripe and fineHawke’s Bay Chardonnay, making the Estate Cahrdonnay 2024 a standout.“

- 94 Punkte James Suckling: " Very attractive, showing green apples, pears and hints of cream. Medium-bodied with a lovely core of fruit and a creamy texture. Just a hint of matchstick. Complex yet subtle. 30% barrel-fermented and about seven months aged in barrel. Real chardonnay. Drink or hold.“

- 93 Punkte, Halliday Wine Companion, Dave Brookes (04/2026): „A dry, hot year with cooler nights in February; mostly from the Dartmoor subregion; 50% mlf and a mix of tank and barrel ferment. Light straw with aromas of white peach, nectarine and citrus fruits over hints of clover blossom, crushed riverstone, clotted cream, grilled peach, vanilla bean and sea breeze. Fruit-pure with a lovely textural silkiness, a sapid mineral cadence and a long citrus and stone-fruit draw on the finish. 2026-2031.“

- 91 Punkte The Wine Front: „This is a fresh-faced and juicy wine as at now, quite fruity, with peach and pear, a nip of grapefruit, a little spice and green herb, very slight struck match. It pulls a little finer in the mouth with bright citrus acidity, again a spray of green herb and lime zest through the gently tropical fruit, finishing with a spicy tang and solid length, a bit of flint on exit. Some green olive... a lively wine. Drink : 2026 - 2030+“

- DECANTER - World Wine Awards 2025: „Aromas and flavours of fresh apple and grapefruit with an underlying mineral quality. Lovely purity, fine lees complexity and integrated oak spice.“

- Wine Enthusiast: “ An unabashedly aromatic and crowd-pleasing wine that shows off this moderately warm North Island region's ability to ripen Chard. It bursts with tropical and citrus fruit backed by toastier notes. The palate follows a similar through line, with nervy acidity amidst the lees and barrel characters.“