Greywacke Chardonnay
- White
- New Zealand
- Marlborough
- Chardonnay
- Tracked vintages
- 10
- Community notes
- 199
- Merchant offers
- 58
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 95/ 1002022 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 82/ 100199 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £28per 75 cl2016 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
- Drinking window
- 2025–2035drinking2015 · 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 69 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: New Zealand Chardonnay.
- Body3.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.6 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness1.5 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, butter, vanilla, butterscotch, cedar
- Citrus · citrus, lemon, grapefruit, lime, lemon zest
- Earth · minerals, smoke, stone, honey, flint
- Tree fruit · apple, peach, apricot, pear, green apple
- Yeast and lees · cream, yeast, cheese, oil, lemon curd
- Ageing (non-oak) · toast, nutty, almond, brioche, marzipan
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.
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.
- 202381drinkersunit not stated
- 202295criticunit not stated
- 202179drinkersunit not stated
- 201977drinkersunit not stated
- 201893criticunit not stated
- 201793criticunit not stated
- 201694critic£28 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
- 201592critic
- 201493critic
- 201192critic£18 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2015
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2022
- 95 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2014
- drinking, window 2016–2028
- Lowest price
- 2011
- £18 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 trade
Where to go next
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