Well, well, well. If there was any denying Marlborough’s emergence as a chardonnay powerhouse then we’d recommend shaking that all the way off, because our results have our largest wine region neck and neck with Hawke’s Bay and chasing golden glory. And boy, haven’t we had a glorious past few years for chardonnay. In fact, if aliens arrived on earth, aimed a plasma pistol at your face and demanded you “divulge the best recent years for chardonnay in five seconds or the planet gets pulverised” you could simply blurt “2020, 2019 and 2018” and you’d be a truth hero.
Whilst we at look forward to the results of every Tasting Panel, the chardonnay results seem to always generate an electric sort of excitement. There is much wringing of hands, nibbling of nails and chewing of cheek
