product description
Ata Rangi Potiki Chardonnay 2022
Tasting Note
The 2022 has an expressive, floral, and delicate fruit driven nose of white peach, rock melon and orange
blossom. The palate has a refined mineral entry, with hints of salinity. It opens further with notes of citrus
and fennel and flavours of pastry and almond. Beautifully balanced on the palate, this wine is fresh and joyous,
combining cool fruit notes with fine acidity.
Aromas and flavours:





Reviews
Reviews for Ata Rangi Potiki Chardonnay 2022:
James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com
95/100
#35 Top 100 Wines of New Zealand 2024
Very precise chardonnay with sliced apples, lemons, lemongrass, white peaches and just a hint of flint. Medium-bodied with a tight and very defined palate that shows energy and focus. Structured for longevity, but already thoughtful to taste. Drink or hold.
Cameron Douglas MS
CamDouglasMS.com
A delicious wine! Aromas and flavours of ripe almost sweet grapefruits, white fleshed stone fruits and a seam of minerality and fine lees spice qualities. Medium+ weighted as the wine touches the palate, a satin texture with contrasting acidity. As the wine opens out in glass the textures and flavours develop a flourish and intensity. Fine fruit tannins with a lees texture, delicious, fresh and dry with plenty of complexity, charm and cellar attributes. Best drinking from 2023 through 2039+.
Sam Kim
Wine Orbit
Charming and enticing, the bouquet shows ripe stone fruit, nougat, hazelnut and oatmeal nuances, leading to a beautifully layered palate that's succulent and creamy. Wonderfully composed and expressed with elegant complexity and persistency. At its best: now to 2030.
Erin Larkin
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Pōtiki Chardonnay is a collation of younger vine material from around the Ata Rangi vineyards. "As a season, 2022 was tricky. It had less diurnal shifts and more rain than 2021," says Winemaker Helen Masters. The wine, however, feels a triumph in this glass. It's spicy, layered and restrained, with creamed nuts, white peach, stewed apples and shaved fennel, mandarin oil and a sprinkling of custard powder. It is pure, in its way. It went through a fully wild ferment, unsulfured until racking/bottling and full malolactic fermentation. There's a purity to the flow of flavor here. It's lovely. Helen and I discussed Chardonnay and style, and it was a fascinating conversation. This is a person who understands the importance of place, identity and expression.
Additional information
Type: white wine
Varietal: Chardonnay
Vineyards: Lismore, Walnut Ridge, Cambrae Vineyards, Martinborough, New Zealand
Winemaking: Hand-picked fruit was whole
bunch pressed, with the
unsettled juice fully barrel
fermented in Burgundy 300L
puncheon barrels (20% new)
using indigenous yeasts. Partial
malolactic. Aged in barrel on
lees for 11 months.
Name: Potiki, meaning ‘last born’ in Maori.
Alcohol: 12.5% vol
Total Acidity: 6.1g/l
Bottle size: 0.75l
Notice: contains sulphites
Cellaring potential: 2027
Closure: Screwcap
Produced and bottled by: Ata Rangi Vineyard, PO Box 43, Martinborough 5741, New Zealand
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