2020 Fromm Chardonnay Organic, Marlborough

A complex and elegant bouquet, there’s a natural mineral quality that precedes the bouquet of fresh white fleshed fruits, apple and grapefruit and a fine leesy core. Mineral, floral and new. Delicious, fresh, salivating and ripe with flavours that mirror the bouquet. A wine of texture and minerality as much as it is fruit and flavour. Citrus and pith, apple and quince, white peach and flowers. There’s a whisper of spice; this is a wine of purity and finesse. Best drinking from mid to late 2023 through 2030.

96 points Outstanding Cameron Douglas MS camdouglasms.com

A ripe and generous Chardonnay underpinned by a core of minerality. 100% old vine Mendoza clone, hand-picked, then crushed and presses into Burgundy oak barrels for wild yeast fermentation until dry, before being matured in barrel for 12 months during which time the wine underwent full malolactic fermentation.