Church Road Grand Reserve Chardonnay (2021)

2021, Hawkes Bay New Zealand

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Limited stocks of the NZ wine that made global headlines! The TRIPLE Trophy winner in London including Trophy Best International Chardonnay!
A big, full bodied, powerful Hawke's Bay Chardonnay - this is first class
Trophy Best New Zealand Chardonnay, Trophy Best New Zealand White, Trophy Best International Chardonnay, Gold medal (Int'l Wine Challenge, London 2024), Trophy Champion Chardonnay (Hong Kong Int'l Wine Comp 2024), Gold medal (Hong Kong Int'l Wine Comp 2024), Gold medal (Hawke's Bay Wine Awards 2023), Gold medal (NZ Int'l Wine Show 2023), 94/100 (Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review)
Only produced in exceptional years, low cropping vineyards, hand-harvested, plenty of love goes into this label!
The previous four vintages have won 11 Trophies and a whopping 15 Gold medals!

196 in stock

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EXTREMELY LIMITED STOCKS OF THE NZ CHARDONNAY THAT MADE GLOBAL HEADLINES!

This is the incredible 2021 vintage that took out THREE Trophies at the International Wine Challenge in London including Trophy for Champion International Chardonnay that sent international and domestic wine buyers into a frenzy to grab anything and everything they could of this vintage.

We’ve been allocated one final shipment of this 2021 vintage – the first case went into the boss’ car boot, the rest is yours to scramble over!

Trophy Champion International Chardonnay (IWC 2024)
Trophy Champion NZ Chardonnay (IWC 2024)
Trophy Champion NZ White (IWC 2024)
Trophy Champion Chardonnay (Hong Kong Int’l Wine Comp 2024)
Gold medal (IWC 2024)
Gold medal (Hawke’s Bay Wine Awards 2023)
Gold medal (NZ Int’l Wine Show 2023)
Gold medal (Hong Kong Int’l Wine Comp 2024)

Formerly known as Church Road’s Reserve range they’ve given the wines a slick, stealth like black label and slapped the word “Grand” in the name, now known as Church Road Grand Reserve Chardonnay. It sits above the Church Road McDonald Series and below their iconic (and expensive!) Church Road TOM Chardonnay.

So that’s the marketing job done, what about the wine? Are they actually Grand? Are they what! These are sheer world class wines, up there with the best you’ll find in Hawke’s Bay. That’s why you’ll only find Church Road wines under this label released in exceptional vintage. Made from low-cropping vineyard blocks (to ensure more concentrated, ripe flavours), hand-harvested and produced using small batch, traditional techniques. Entirely hand harvested, whole bunch pressed with wild yeast and left to age for 11 months in French oak.

This label has been something of a magnet for the Golds over the years. The 2018 vintage won 7 Trophies and 7 Gold medals, the 2019 was Double Gold and 95/100 by Bob Campbell MW and the 2020 vintage made international headlines taking out an incredible 97 Points & Best In Show Award at the Decanter World Wine Awards in London. That means it was one of the top 50 wines from over 18,000 entered!

The 2021 vintage didn’t buck the trend winning Trophy Best New Zealand Chardonnay, Trophy Best New Zealand White, Trophy Best International Chardonnay at the International Wine Challenge in London!

A powerful, full-bodied, complex Chardonnay with superb cellaring potential and will make a stunning food match to seafood or white meats in a creamy sauce. Sure to improve over the next five or six years too.