The Matriarch Chardonnay 2024

NEW VINTAGE RELEASE- we know you have been waiting for this one.

Only two barrels made so we will sell out early again.

The queen of white wine some say, and a Hawke’s Bay signature.

Our elevated inland site with its hot days and cool nights coupled with stony free draining soils enables us to produce Chardonnay with nice ripe white stone fruit and citrus aromatics. The Chardonnay vines are hand tended in Burgundian peasant fashion and selectively hand harvested by family and friends.

The 2024 Matriarch Chardonnay is the most instantly appealing chardonnay we have produced to date. A small harvest of beautifully ripe grapes was whole bunch pressed to seasoned barrels for fermentation with wild/indigenous yeasts. Full malolactic fermentation was undertaken with some lees stirring and this has delivered a sophisticated style of Hawke's Bay chardonnay. Immediate impression is of very ripe white stone fruit with a grapefruit zest acid line. Mineral, reductive notes with a warm brioche creaminess and mellow buttery vanilla oak tones. Nice acid balance suggests this wine is going to develop beautifully over the next 5 years.

Ideally matched with seafood or chicken, but try it with some Asian influenced dishes- you will be rewarded.

Available in 6 and 12 count cartons that can be mixed with other Wairiki wines.