Fruit for this wine was grown in an old alluvial riverbed, with soils of exposed greywacke rock, imparting a definitive flinty character to the wine. The vines are 40-year-old Mendoza clones – a rare find in Marlborough. Flinty with citrus and white stone fruit on the nose. Textural on the palate with very fine acidity, showing fleshy yellow fruits, oatmeal and river stone characters. The finish is long and complex.

"Firework flint, lemon oil and yellow peach cheeks. Grapefruit sorbet and cold butter log. Almond milk creaminess with a deft handling of oak on the palate. Cumin, powdered ginger and white pepper. This delivers the charitable dimensions of chardonnay with a breeze of gently rolling acidity and brilliance of a chiselled precious stone. Peach cream and baked meringue on the finish. Drinking beautifully and will age further. Wonderful to see the confidence and precision from a new player. Very exciting." 96pts Halliday Wine Companion 2/25