Hunter’s Offshoot Chardonnay 2021

Name: Hunter's Offshoot Chardonnay 2021
SKU: HT-CH-21-OFFS-W
Availability: InStock

$215

Hunter’s Offshoot Chardonnay 2021
Marlborough, New Zealand

The 2021 Offshoot Chardonnay shows a layered nose of ripe apricots and citrus characters, with a hint of toasted almonds and vanilla oak notes. Stone fruit continues through to the palate where the creamy elegant mouthfeel integrates beautifully with the French oak. The wine shows excellent structure with fruit weight on the finish. The wine can be enjoyed now but will also develop and evolve over the next 5 years.

Alc. 13.2%
R.S.: 2.65g/L

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SKU: HT-CH-21-OFFS-W Categories: Chardonnay, Hunters Wines, Marlborough, New Zealand, White Wine, Women in Wine Tags: Hunters Wines, pet-nat

4.5 STARS – Winestate, March Issue, March 2023
Creamy tropical aromas with a flinty thread. Good fruit wright on the palate with lingering flavours of lemons and biscuits. Over delivers!

5 STARS – Michael Cooper, NZ Wines, October 2022
The elegant, very finely balanced 2020 vintage was estate-grown at apaura and hand-harvested from 30 year-old vines. It was fermented with indigenous yeasts in large (900 litre) French Oak barrels (35% new) on the basis that ‘big barrels show the fruit’ and wood aged for a year. Bright yellow/green, it is a complex, full bodie wine, with concentrated, ripe, peachy, citrusy flavours, gently seasoned oak, fresh acidity and a savoury, lingering finish. Best drinking2024+.

SILVER – The New Zealand International Wine Show 2022, October 2022

GOLD – The Marlborough Wine Show 2022, October 2022

95 POINTS – Cameron Douglas MS, Summer World of Wine, September 2022
A bouquet of place, time and complexity with a modern twist. Aromas and flavours of gun-flint and grapefruit, chalk and lemon, apple and white flowers. There’s a leesy-barrel spice complexity adding texture and breadth of flavour on the palate. Plenty of weight and mouthfeel this wine is delicious and new and very stylish. Best drinking on is own or some freshly steamed shellfish or hāngī food.

SILVER – International Cool Climate Wine Show, July 2022

4 STARS – Bob Campbell, The Real Review, June 2022
From 30-year-old Mendoza clone Chardonnay from the Home Block next to the winery. Fermented and matured in 900 litre French barrels. Richer and weightier than the regular Chardonnay with white peach, nectarine, toast and hazelnut flavours. Best drinking 2022 – 2026.

Winery Profile

HUNTER’S WINES – Marlborough

Established more than 30 years ago, Hunter’s have won over 160 gold medals at national and international wine competitions and today remains the only Marlborough vineyard established in the 1970s to still be owned by its original family. As a major player in kick-starting the “Marlborough sauvignon Blanc” movement, Hunter’s were ahead of their time and they continue to lead the way with new varietals, wine-making techniques and unfaltering consistency.