Squawking Magpie Gravels Chardonnay 2020, Hawkes Bay

This wine was selected as one of the top 12 Hawkes Bay Chardonnay’s from the 2020 vintage, here’s why:

The bouquet is captivating and complex, a wine that speaks of place and time. There's a core of fruit that is plush, ripe and alluring, almost beguiling with scents of yellow stone fruits, apple and citrus peel and a smidgin of pith. On the palate the core fruit flavours are surrounded by wood and some fruit tannins, acidity is pristine, fresh adding vibrato and highlighting some natural baking spice qualities from the fruit and oak. As the wine relaxes and warms in the glass, more layers of complexity emerge. A fascinating wine, still rather youthful, very lengthy and delicious. Excellent potential, fantastic value. Best drinking from mid to late 2022 through 2030.

96 Points

Outstanding

RRP from $34.00