Tony Bish Golden Egg Hawke's Bay Chardonnay 2022

Tony Bish Golden Egg Hawke's Bay Chardonnay 2022"Exquisitely elegant and refined, the wine shows lemon pith, oatmeal, white floral and wet limestone nuances on the nose, followed by a brilliantly focused palate offering seamless flow and linear mouthfeel. Poised, impeccably balanced and structured with a sustained sophisticated finish. At its best: now to 2034" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Jun 2023 "Complexity is immediate with scents of grapefruit and white peach, crushed stone minerality, gun flint, lees

"Exquisitely elegant and refined, the wine shows lemon pith, oatmeal, white floral and wet limestone nuances on the nose, followed by a brilliantly focused palate offering seamless flow and linear mouthfeel. Poised, impeccably balanced and structured with a sustained sophisticated finish. At its best: now to 2034" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Jun 2023

"Complexity is immediate with scents of grapefruit and white peach, crushed stone minerality, gun flint, lees and a gentle reductive persona. As the wine opens up in glass the scents of fruit then spice, mineral and complexity become louder. Dry, delicious, expressive textures and taut youthful textures touch the palate first.  Flavours of white fleshed stone fruits, lees spice and texture and citrus then mineral touch. A delicious wine with best drinking from late 2023 through 2029" Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier, Jun 2023

"Bright, even, pale yellow with a light green hue. The nose is elegantly full, with layers of nuts, minerals, fine spice, stonefruit and citrus. Medium-full bodied, pronounced aromas of lemon and grapefruit interweaved with white peach, citrus peels, stony minerals, delicate spice and hints of almonds. The wine is expressive, layered and in well-proportions. A touch of creaminess provides volume. The refined mouthfeel of stony minerals is almost chalky, glides along with well-managed acid tension to linearity. This enticing, expressive Chardonnay is complex, layered with well-portioned minerals, creaminess and nutty elements" Candice Chow, Raymond Chan Reviews, Jul 2023

"Stylish Chardonnay with grapefruit, savoury/nutty flavours and restrained fruit characters and an appealingly silken, glycerol-laced texture. Attractive wine from a challenging vintage" Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, Real Review, Jun 2023

"Tony Bish’s Golden Egg Chardonnay lives up to its name and is consistently one of the best full bodied whites in New Zealand with delicious depth of flavour, a full body and smooth creamy texture. This textural win-win is underpinned by fruit flavours of ripe lemons, white peach and nectarine. Balanced acidity provides the wine with its long finish, which follows creamy fullness from fermentation in a concrete egg; a vessel designed to accentuate richness and balance in Chardonnay. This wine is golden by name and by nature" Joelle Thomson, Jun 2023

Medium straw appearance. The aroma is a medley of nectarine, peach, apple blossom, with hints of almond and nutty richness. These aromas flow onto the richly textured palate that displays summer stone-fruit notes with hints of almond and a bright citrus finish that lingers and refreshes.