Chardonnay

This is the wine that first illustrated, clearly and convincingly, the value of our Sweet Spot Theory. Riverbrook produces fruit with a strong sense of what the vineyard is – rocky, windswept and slightly wild.

 Style: Structured, mineral-driven Chardonnay in a Burgundian style – precise and restrained, where texture and place matter as much as the fruit.

 The Riverbrook Chardonnay is defined by its sense of place. From one of Marlborough's oldest Chardonnay vineyards, grown on ancient greywacke riverbed, it carries a mineral precision that is unmistakably its own – oyster shell, wet stone and a quiet saline thread running beneath white peach and citrus. It is Burgundian in its bones: the oak is present but never the point. What stays with you is the tension, the fine acidity, and a finish that lingers like light on stone.