Cloudy Bay Chardonnay
- White
- New Zealand
- Marlborough
- Chardonnay
- Tracked vintages
- 25
- Community notes
- 577
- Merchant offers
- 106
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 92/ 1002023 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 82/ 100577 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £28per 75 cl2022 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- Drinking window
- 2016–2027drinking2015 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 142 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: New Zealand Chardonnay.
- Body3.4 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.6 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness1.6 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, butter, vanilla, butterscotch, caramel
- Citrus · citrus, lemon, grapefruit, lime, orange
- Tree fruit · peach, apple, green apple, apricot, pear
- Earth · minerals, smoke, stone, honey, flint
- Tropical fruit · pineapple, tropical, passion fruit, mango, kiwi
- Yeast and lees · cream, yeast, cheese, banana, lemon curd
Grapes: Chardonnay. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2007One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2022
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 202392criticunit not stated
- 202283drinkers£28 / 75cl6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 202184drinkersunit not stated
- 202082drinkersunit not stated
- 201994critic£25 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023
- 201889critic£25 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2021
- 201779drinkers£22 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2020
- 201692critic£28 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, June 2019
- 201591critic£14 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2018
- 201491critic£23 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018
- 201390critic£16 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016
- 201287critic£15 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, August 2015
- 200978drinkersunit not stated
- 200886drinkers
- 200785critic£26 / 75cl1500 ml in-bond trade, November 2017
- 200685critic
- 200588drinkers
- 200489drinkers
- 200386drinkers
- 200285drinkers
- 200189drinkers
- 200089drinkers
- 199986drinkers
- 199891drinkers
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2019
- 94 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2015
- drinking, window 2016–2027
- Lowest price
- 2015
- £14 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | £28 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2019 | £25 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023 |
| 2018 | £25 | 89 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2021 |
| 2017 | £22 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2020 |
| 2016 | £28 | 91.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, June 2019 |
| 2015 | £14 | 91.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2018 |
| 2014 | £23 | 90.5 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018 |
| 2013 | £16 | 90 | No | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016 |
| 2012 | £15 | 87 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2015 |
| 2007 | £26 | 85 | — | per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, November 2017 |
Where to go next
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