Smith & Sheth CRU Howell Vineyard Chardonnay 2019, Hawkes Bay

Fantastic bouquet with intensity of both fruit and oak, complexity, place and time. Aromas of baked stone fruits and apple, fresh white nectarine and toasty barrel spices. There’s a silty almost stony soil layer with an invigorating power. Full-bodied, a satin cream texture, flavours of stone fruit and grapefruit, toasty barrel and barrel spics, layers of nutty complex oak flavours, perfectly balanced alcohol and acid line. A delicious example with a long dry finish. Bet drinking from 2022 through 2028+.

95 Points

Outstanding

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