Chardonnay, Marlborough, 2022

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

Available Vintages

all 2022

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.

critic reviews

91/100Rebecca 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