Poppies Martinborough Chardonnay

POPPIES

2023

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The true intention of Poppies Martinborough is to never make fashionable wines. Chardonnay is the most unfashionable; more a true classic from the profound nutty buttery and oak-dominated, to the more refined and delicate Chablis minerally styles. Chardonnay is the wise lady, the Helen Clark of structure and resilience.

You want discussion - be careful - this will create debate. A staunch chardonnay fan can never be removed from the conversation. Chardonnay will always dominate.

We prefer the minerality to be expressed with subtle oak used to cradle the steely fruit, the wine style best suited to our cool climate and deep alluvial gravel soils. Early in youth, the wines can be awkward and separated, however, time will bind fruit, oak and minerality to create layers and lingering rich flinty flavours.

Chardonnay is the most unfashionable; more a true classic from the profound nutty buttery and oak-dominated, to the more refined and delicate Chablis minerally styles. Chardonnay is the wise lady, the Helen Clark of structure and resilience.