Te Mata Elston Chardonnay 2024
- New Zealand
- Chardonnay
- ABV 14
- Zalto Denk'Art Burgundy Glass
97 Points James Suckling
“Focused and textured, showing sliced apples and lemons with hints of dried pears and crushed stones on the nose. Full-bodied with chewy phenolics that add to the salty, subtle fruit. Limes at the end. Structured and impressive, this is a beautiful follow-up after the terrific 2023. A powerful and rather muscular chardonnay that highlights the quality of the fruit. 100% barrel-fermented and aged 11 months. Drink or hold. Screw cap.”
97 Points Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
“The wine combines generosity, complexity, and refinement. The elegantly expressed bouquet shows ripe apricot, lemon peel, oatmeal, nougat, biscotti, and fine oak characters with a hint of flint. The palate delivers an impressive drive and flow, complemented by a richly textured mouthfeel and perfectly pitched acidity, finishing expansive and engaging”.
96 Points Dave Brookes, Halliday’s Wine Companion
“Chardonnay sourced from Havelock Hills, Bridge Pa and Dartmoor, Mendoza, 548 and 95 clones, full barrel ferment, 85% mlf. Light straw with aromas of juicy white peach, grilled nectarine, grapefruit and lemon fruits over hints of clotted cream, vanillin oak, soft spice, white flowers, sea breeze, nougat, grilled hazelnuts, crème fraîche, a curl of struck flint and crushed riverstone. Power with restraint, lovely stony resolve on the palate, a light creamy textural aspect and a beautiful long draw of flavour”.
Matthew Jukes Top 18 Gold Medal-scoring wine from New Zealand
“Refined and packed with gorgeous fruit amplitude and perfectly balanced oak, this is a super-detailed wine with astonishing equilibrium given its scale of flavour. This is mightily impressive given it is only a baby!”
Vinyard: The superb quality of the 2024 vintage was immediately apparent in the fully ripe
grapes that were hand harvested from their separate, individual plots within Te Mata
Estate’s vineyards between 26 February and 20 March 2024.
Winemaking: Each parcel was gently whole-cluster pressed, cold settled and racked to new and
seasoned French oak barrels for fermentation. The resulting wines remained in contact
with their yeast lees, with a number going through malolactic fermentation. The finest
lots were selected for further maturation, spending a total of 11 months in barrel with
33% being new oak.
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