2024 Reed Chardonnay Blank Canvas Marlborough Wine

Reed Vineyard Chardonnay 2024

$65.00 NZD

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Vineyard: Reed Vineyard
Subregion: Wairau and Waihopai Rivers confluence | Central Wairau
Region: Marlborough
Vintage: 2024
Soil Type: Moderate to low-vigour, thin topsoil on stone and clays
Clone: Clone 95
Viticulture: Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand Certified (SWNZ)
Growers: Pete and Anne Reed

Appellation Marlborough Wine Certified (AMW) | Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand Certified (SWNZ)
Vegan | Vegetarian

The Reed Vineyard Chardonnay is a wine of remarkable texture and depth. Its high-toned aromas of white peach, grapefruit, and grilled toast intertwine beautifully with subtle flint and silex complexities. The vivid, finely-tuned acidity carries the powerful yet restrained oak with precision and poise. Cultivated by Chardonnay artisans Pete and Anne Reed, these meticulously cared-for vines thrive in the clay loam soils at the confluence of the Wairau and Waihopai rivers. You may enjoy the wine in its youth for its crystalline purity, or cellar it to discover the layers of tertiary development over the years to come.

Our Reed Vineyard Chardonnay is guided by a single aim: let the vineyard speak with clarity while using thoughtful, but simple winemaking to reveal texture and depth.

Handpicked and whole-bunch pressed, the unsettled free-run juice was filled straight to French oak puncheons (40% new). Fermentation began naturally with indigenous yeasts and progressed long and slow without disturbance, followed by natural malolactic conversion in spring.

The wine spent 11 months on fine lees in oak to build mid-palate richness, after which it was combined, gently settled and carefully racked before being bottled unfiltered to retain purity, texture and the true expression of the site.

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Reviews

5 STARS

"‘The refined 2024 vintage (*****)was hand-picked at the confluence of the Waihopai and Wairau valleys. Bright, light lemon/green, it is a mouth-filling, vigorous, savoury wine, with peachy, citrusy, gently biscuity flavours, showing excellent intensity, vibrancy and complexity. Still youthful, with finely tuned acidity and a lingering finish, it's a very stylish wine, well worth cellaring for several years."

- MICHAEL COOPER MA ONZM

96 POINTS

"So perfumed and full of character, with wild, energetic power,offering aromas of beeswax, dried rosemary, crunchy stone fruit and savoryorange peel. Medium- to full-bodied with tense, lively acidity and a tightphenolic structure, showing expressive fruit, smoke, minerals and crushedstones at the end. A beautiful wine. Drink now or hold. Screw cap."

- JAMES SUCKLING

96 POINTS

"High-energy chardonnay with hints of green apple, wet stone, peppery oak, nutty yeast and oyster shell flavours. A mix of purity and power. A thoroughbred that promises to age magnificently."

- BOB CAMPBELL MW

94 POINTS

"An excellent bouquet and palate, saline and fresh, stone fruit and wood smoke, mineral and baking spice scents. A satin-cream mouthfeel as the wine touches followed by flavours of grapefruit peel the peach, apple then a layer of spices from wood and lees effect. Harmoniously dry with complexity and texture. Best drinking from day of purchase or early 2025 through 2028+."