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Matawhero Chardonnay

Name: Matawhero Chardonnay 750ml
SKU: 103884
Price: 20.99 NZD
Availability: InStock

Wine · New Zealand · 750ml · 13%

$20.99each

What it tastes like

A New Zealand Chardonnay with ripe stone fruit and subtle oak, a creamy texture and balanced acidity, finishing smooth.

Stone fruit
Oak

Additional information

Wine
Style: New Zealand
Origin: 750ml
Size: 13% ABV
Alcohol: 0.8 per bottle
Standard drinks

The story of Matawhero Chardonnay

Matawhero has made wine in Gisborne since 1975, when Denis Irwin and his father Bill released the first vintage from the family vineyard on Riverpoint Road, about ten minutes from the city. Bill Irwin had turned the property into a vineyard in the 1960s, when the Poverty Bay flats were mostly livestock and maize country, and Denis built the wines' reputation partly on Gewurztraminer.

By 2008 the winery had not sold a bottle for eight years. Richard and Kirsten Searle bought it that year and, with Denis's guidance, restored the vines and relaunched the label.

Chardonnay is the main grape of Gisborne. The region regularly records some of the highest sunshine hours and temperatures in New Zealand, so it is often the first to be harvested. Matawhero's Chardonnays lean toward ripe peach and melon with a creamy texture, and the estate is dry farmed, relying on natural rainfall rather than irrigation.

Pour it lightly chilled with roast chicken, creamy pasta, grilled prawns or a wedge of aged cheddar.