$36.00
Friends of Alchemy Member Price $30.60
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“Judges loved the complex white peach, toasty oak and the delicious richness and salivating salinity on the palate, powerful style done very well.”
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“The 2024 Hawke’s Bay Annual Chardonnay Collection, celebrating a spectacular vintage that has produced wines of exceptional quality, depth, and finesse. A total of 56 wines were blind selected by a judging panel of Cameron Douglas MS, Emma Jenkins MW, and Thalia Osborne, the 2025 North Island Young Winemaker of the Year, from which 12 outstanding wines were chosen. These wines represent the pinnacle of the 2024 vintage, showcasing the dedication, skill, and innovation of Hawke’s Bay winemakers.”
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“2024 will go down as one of the great Hawke’s Bay vintages and the Coghill’s have left nothing on the table with this spectacular wine. This is an inspiring barrel-fermented Hawke’s Bay chardonnay, that seamlessly melds powerhouse winemaking techniques with freshness and an unbridled sense of energy that will have their winemaking peers nodding with respect. Full malolactic-ferment and 25% new oak contribute weight and texture, but this is a chardonnay so full of vim and vigour, that it’s hard to know where to start describing it. I thought it was sensational and was thrilled for Cairn and Rebecca when it was named Champion Wine of Show at the 2025 Hawke’s Bay Wine Awards. It’s a timely reminder that the very best of our New Zealand wines sit at the pinnacle of global wine production. White Burgundy of this caliber could easily cost $500-plus.”
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“Wonderfully styled with complexity, the wine exhibits ripe stone fruit, lemon peel, hazelnut, and vanilla notes on the nose, complemented by a hint of gun smoke. It’s concentrated on the palate, offering terrific weight and creamy flow, wonderfully structured by beautifully pitched acidity, finishing impressively long and satisfying. At its best: now to 2034″
The Alchemy 2024 Chardonnay was created from selectively hand-picked fruit, 100% clone 6, from a single vineyard site in the Havelock North hills. The fruit was whole bunch pressed to French oak barrels for fermentation and aging on lees for 9 months and then held for a further 6 months as a blend on light lees. Full malolactic and with a 25% new French Oak component, this wine is expressive and has beautiful generosity.
Wonderfully bright and aromatic with flinty nuances, sweet cedary oak spice, apple crumble, lemon curd, floral honeysuckle and oyster shell notes. The palate is layered with concentrated stone fruit and ripe lemon flavours, generously structured with juicy saline qualities and a deliciously long finish.
14.0% Alcohol
