CHURCH ROAD 1
CHURCH ROAD 1
CHARDONNAY 2022
PROVENANCE
Church Road 1 is a range of single vineyard wines that showcase the terroir of our best vineyards. Planted on the eastern banks of the Tuki Tuki River by Tom McDonald in the 1960s, our Tuki Tuki Vineyard’s dense clay soils and cooling sea breezes make it ideally suited to producing Chardonnay, the sole variety grown here in naturally modest yields of fragrant fruit with a natural acidity and a minerality not felt as keenly in grapes grown at other sites.
- WINEMAKERS Chris Scott and Craig Thomas
- VITICULTURALISTS Graham Bartleet and Claire Pinker
RECENT ACCOLADES
2023
Global Fine Wine Challenge
DOUBLE
GOLD
2023
Wine Orbit – Sam Kim
97
POINTS
2023
Michael Cooper
5
STARS
AROMAS
TASTING NOTES
The Tuki Tuki Vineyard has typically delivered a vibrant fruit spectrum with an
amalgam of citrus and citrus blossom, acacia flower and a richer undertone of ripe peach. Wild fermentation and
lees aging in-barrel has overlaid elements of roasted nuts
and toasted brioche.
BODY
TASTING NOTES
A fuller bodied Chardonnay balanced by gentle, fresh acidity, savoury umami-like complexity
and flinty minerality that gives the wine a long, lithe finish. With age, the wine will develop
more complex, savoury nuttiness and will gain breadth
and richness on the palate.
CELLARING
TASTING NOTES
Still youthful and taught, with careful cellaring we expect this wine
to continue to mature gracefully for six years or more
from vintage date.
