Cloudy Bay Chardonnay

2023, Marlborough New Zealand

From the world famous Cloudy Bay - this is a top class Marlborough Chardonnay that simply oozes class!
"A powerful Marlborough wine" (Michael Cooper)
92/100 (Stephen Wong MW, The Real Review) - "Not a blockbuster, this mid-weight wine is elegant and innately complex with good promise for the mid-term."
A complex, full bodied style, 100% barrel fermented in French oak for 11 months
The wow-factor dinner party white for the now or cellar for 10+ years down the track

Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc was the wine that put New Zealand on the world wine map but if you ask us Cloudy Bay Chardonnay is their unsung hero. It’s a world class white that oozes style and class!

It’s not just the Cloudy Bay reputation that’s big. This is a full bodied, big and complex, powerful style – a Chardonnay lover’s Chardonnay. Hand picked parcels of fruit from Cloudy Bay’s vineyards in the Wairau Valley and Southern Valleys region. It’s 100% barrel fermented in French oak for 11 months and regular lees stirring for added complexity. They gave this one the works and boy does it show!

This 2023 vintage scored 92/100 with Master of Wine Stephen Wong for The Real Review, he called it “A restrained, carefully layered modern chardonnay with tightly woven flavours of grapefruit, flint, stony minerality and white peach encased in subtly spicy wood and a hint of fresh cream. Not a blockbuster, this mid-weight wine is elegant and innately complex with good promise for the mid-term.”

The guys at Cloudy Bay themselves say this about this 2023 release – “Cloudy Bay Chardonnay 2023 is one for connoisseurs and gastronomic adventurers: refined, poised and balanced. Painstakingly made using traditional techniques, it is a true ‘food wine’.”

Wow the dinner guests and serve with seafood and other bright or creamy flavours. How about with a Caprese salad, soft cows’ cheeses, cream sauces and basically anything smoked or chargrilled.

Drink now or stash in the cellar for the next decade and beyond.