Clearview Estate Reserve Chardonnay

If you like your Chardonnays on the lighter side, step aside. Clearview’s Reserve Chardonnay is unashamedly a bigger, bolder, more powerful style! An iconic NZ Chardonnay with a huge following and listed in Michael Cooper’s prestigious “NZ Super Classics” list.

Produced from vineyards that sit right on the Te Awanga coastline there in Hawke’s Bay, from 28 year old vines, 10 different soil types, 4 separate picking times, 10 barrel makers, 3 yeast strains and wild yeasts – wine maker Tim Turvey doesn’t do anything half arsed when it comes to his Reserve Chardonnay that’s for sure.

This is the wine that Tim aims to be a “big, grunty, upfront” style – and it rarely fails to hit the mark!

Scoring 95/100 Cam Douglas MS who said “A delicious wine, as expected filled with texture and layers of flavours from sweet grapefruit to crisp red apple and peach. There’s a mix of wood and barrel smoke twined together with a citrus and stone fruit complexity then some roasted nut and barrel-smoke ideas. Dry, full-bodied and chewy with flavour and length. Complex and well made with best drinking from as early as tomorrow or best from late 2026 through 2032+.”.

Enjoy it over the next several years and watch it mellow and develop. Chardonnays like this are great food wines – try chicken, pork and seafood (like crayfish).