• French oak
• Stonefruits
• Brioche
• Creamy

"The 2022 Chardonnay is round, creamy and succulent. Biodynamically grown, hand harvested and whole bunch pressed, there’s a sense of purity and ease. It fills the mouth with concentrated fruit and leaves behind a fine-grained texture that coats the cheeks. Wild fermented and aged in French oak and puncheons for six months, the oak influence is subtle, with pastry-like lees characters complementing the ripe apple-like flavors. Mellow and pleasurable, ready to drink from release" Rebecca Gibb, Master of Wine, Vinous, Apr 2023

"A lovely bouquet of peaches and vanilla cream, fresh red apple and soft toaty wood qualities. Lovely purity on the palate with a coarse-silk texture touching first then flavours of orchard fruits and citrus peel, fine tannins and medium+ acid line. Fresh, ripe and gently creamy with a lengthy finish" Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier, Jan 2023

"This fine value, organically certified wine is designed to ‘focus on the textural element of the palate rather than emphasising primary fruit characters’. It is typically a full-bodied, complex wine with good mouthfeel, ripe fruit characters shining through, subtle toasty oak, and fresh acidity. The 2022 vintage was estate-grown in the Raupo Creek Vineyard, in the Omaka Valley, hand-picked, and fermented and matured for six months in French oak barriques and puncheons. Bright, light lemon/green, it is an elegant wine, fresh and full-bodied, with peachy, slightly toasty flavours, showing considerable complexity, lots of youthful vigour, good acid spine and a lengthy finish" Michael Cooper, Dec 2022

A refined, complete expression of Chardonnay that exudes elegance and poise. The nose is lifted with notes of fleshy stone fruits laced with brioche, and the palate is layered, creamy and complex, yet still elegant, and is framed with focused acidity.

Their clay rich Raupo vineyard, farmed following organic and biodynamic principles is located in the centre of the Omaka Valley. This vineyard has a gentle north-west facing aspect and enjoys high sunshine hours and minimal rain.

2022 will be remembered for its challenging nature, which kept us on our toes after a run of remarkably effortless vintages in a row. Dry, stable weather and over flowering lead to an abundant fruit set, and with consistent small rain events we enjoyed fantastic vigour across the whole vineyard. Leading into the harvest period the region endured some significant rainfall events, which increased berry and bunch size, but also disease pressure, unfortunately. Luckily we had an excellent team working tirelessly in the vineyard to mitigate this and also crop thin throughout the whole vineyard, with an extra focus on the Pinot Noir. We started picking Pinot Noir on 16th March and finished picking with a botrytis style Riesling on 19th May. It must be said, after the early and fast and furious nature of the previous vintages, a vintage that was a touch later and spread out between each variety was really welcomed. With a great picking team and a focus solely on the Raupo vineyard, we were able to pick each plot before any real disease pressure took a hold.

Certified organic and biodynamic fruit was handpicked in three batches, between the 19-27th March. Picked by clone - commencing with Mendoza, then Clone 95 and finally Clone 15, each batch was directly whole bunch pressed. Each batch was pressed to tank for overnight settling before being racked to barrel. All batches went through 100% wild fermentation, and subsequently 100% malolactic fermentation. After six months in French oak, both puncheons and barriques, the batches were blended, filtered and bottled.