Oaked chenin

Oak Estate 1000 Vines Reserve Chenin Blanc 2024, Hawke’s Bay, NZD $34 Relatively well-priced, this is ‘just’ outside the $30 threshold for our value wines. The hand-picked fruit was whole-bunch pressed into used oak barrels for fermentation and ageing. It comes entirely from a single vineyard in the Bridge Pa Triangle subregion. The chenin blanc vines here were planted in 2018, shortly... Read more

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