Seresin Organic Marlborough Chardonnay 2022
92 POINTS: Cameron Douglas MS
92 POINTS: Vinous Media
4.5 STARS: Michael Cooper
2022 Listener Best Buy White Wine: Michael Cooper
"A lovely bouquet of peaches and vanilla cream, fresh red apple and soft toaty wood qualities. Lovely purity on the palate with a coarse-silk texture touching first then flavours of orchard fruits and citrus peel, fine tannins and medium+ acid line. Fresh, ripe and gently creamy with a lengthy finish."
- Cameron Douglas MS
2022 Listener Best Buy White Wine: Michael Cooper
"A lovely bouquet of peaches and vanilla cream, fresh red apple and soft toaty wood qualities. Lovely purity on the palate with a coarse-silk texture touching first then flavours of orchard fruits and citrus peel, fine tannins and medium+ acid line. Fresh, ripe and gently creamy with a lengthy finish."
- Cameron Douglas MS
"This fine value, organically certified wine is designed to ‘focus on the textural element of the palate rather than emphasizing primary fruit characters’. It is typically a full-bodied, complex wine with good mouthfeel, ripe fruit characters shining through, subtle toasty oak, and fresh acidity. The 2022 vintage was estate-grown in the Raupo Creek Vineyard, in the Omaka Valley, hand-picked, and fermented and matured for six months in French oak barriques and puncheons. Bright, light lemon/green, it is an elegant wine, fresh and full-bodied, with peachy, slightly toasty flavours, showing considerable complexity, lots of youthful vigour, good acid spine and a lengthy finish."
- Michael Cooper
A refined, complete expression of Chardonnay that exudes elegance and poise. The nose is lifted with notes of fleshy stone fruits laced with brioche, and the palate is layered, creamy and complex, yet still elegant, and is framed with focused acidity.
A tantalizing, complete expression of Chardonnay that brings together both savoury structure, elegance and depth of concentration. Considered picking and use of oak has created a wine that leans towards the more complex, savoury styles of Chardonnay. Lifted mealy, flinty notes on the nose, develop into a smoky complex flavours on the palate. The wine remains poised with a slaty, mineral acidity on the finish and is bone dry.
ABV: 13%