Te Rere Chardonnay 2021, Waiheke Island

An enticing wine filled with aromas and flavours of apricots and peaches, sweet barrel spices, new wood flavours and a youthful energy. Baked yellow apple and vanilla, some cashew nut and burnt butter flavours, a sweet lees and roasted pineapple note. Full-bodied, new, lots of drive and energy. There’s no mistaking the impact of oak, though this will settle given time, acidity and tannins add texture and length and there’s a fine lees taste on the finish. Well made, just keep in cellar for longer with best drinking likely from late 2025 through 2032+. Just a little young still.

92 Points

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If I get the opportunity to taste this wine again in 2 years I expect the score will go up.