The Marlborist

Chardonnay, Marlborough, 2022

Name: Chardonnay, Marlborough
Brand: The Marlborist
Price: 153.94 GBP

91/100

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2022
75cl
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£25.66
2022
6x75cl
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£153.94

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Chardonnay was originally intended to be the star variety of The Marlborist. Produced from three different vineyards: one in the Brancott Valley, more clay based; Auntsville Estate in the Southern Valleys, clay-loam, and a third in the Wairau Valley on alluvial soils. The combination of free-draining soils and naturally low yields produces small, golden bunches of intensely flavoured fruit. Hand-picked and pressed gently to oak (following the Champagne cycle) for fermentation, it was raised in barrel, 30% new Francois Freres for 11 months plus a further 6 months in tank. This Chardonnay is taut and concentrated, with bristling high acidity and plenty of grapefruit and citrus, roasted nuts, brioche and just a touch of nectarine.

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

91/100

Rebecca Gibb,

Vinous

The 2022 Chardonnay is a firm, flinty, focused expression. It is a wine with a real sense of direction, its citrus-like acid line giving it power and pace, like a galloping horse. It was produced with minimal handling: hand-harvested, whole-bunch pressed, spontaneously fermented in oak and puncheons with the bare minimum of lees-stirring. There’s plenty of fruit purity here as well as quality-wood-derived nutty nuances. Young, tight and energetic, this is one for those who like their Chardonnays with pizzazz. If you do, you'll find this well made and long.

drinking window 2024 - 2030

date of review 04/2024

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.