Takapoto Estate Reserve Chardonnay 2020, Hawke's Bay
Plenty of inviting and familiar scents in the bouquet of this wine, from roasted nut and vanilla to a fruit salad of peaches and nectarine, some ripe grapefruit and apple. A mix of new and older oak is suggested with a new barrel raw sugar and sawdust core then a complexity and gentle spice layer. Plenty of weight with satin-cream textures, the tannins from wood and crispness textures from acidity add mouthfeel and spice. A young wine still with some cellar time needed to blend and harmonise all the components. Best drinking from 2024 through 2030.
93 Points
Excellent
RRP from $54.99