Hunter's Chardonnay 2016
Marlborough
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A Gold and many top scores underline just how brilliant this barrel fermented Chardonnay is. It’s from Hunter’s – one of the first to attract the world’s attention to the quality of New Zealand’s wines. Classic Burgundy style, with a New World twist.
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Wine Details
- White - Dry
New Zealand- Mid Gold
- Chardonnay
- 9.75 Units
- 13% ABV
- 750 ml
- 31 December 2023
Flavour Profile
Tasting notes
Ripe stone fruit, creamy freshness, spice and underlying freshness
Aroma
Creamy peach, vanilla spice, lemon and mineral notes
The Wine
This is gorgeously complex and subtly nuanced Chardonnay that wouldn’t look out of place as a modern Burgundy. It’s had all the Grand Cru treatment – fermentation and ageing in barrel (20% of those new), malolactic fermentation and lees ageing to bring extra creaminess and mineral freshness to hold it all together. The wine’s extraordinary class comes down to the region, Marlborough, and to Jane Hunter OBE, whose team, headed up by her nephew, the winemaker James Macdonald, is one of the most accomplished in New Zealand. Jane and her late husband founded the estate in the 1970s. Hunter’s was one of the first in Marlborough. Every year they win an extraordinary number of Trophies. A great match for roast chicken, salmon or spicy Thai curry.
This is gorgeously complex and subtly nuanced Chardonnay that wouldn’t look out ...
Stone fruits melded harmoniously with creamy barrel-ferment and nutty, toast oak complexities
Raymond Chan
Wine Reviews April 2017
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