We have just released a portion of the 2023 Savaterre Chardonnay via an 'En Primeur' offer.

That is to say order and pay now to guarantee delivery around April 2025 (depending on shipping temperatures).

This limited En Primeur offer was to all our customers who have been keen supporters of Savaterre.

The balance of the 2022 Savaterre Chardonnay will be released around April 2025.

Our 2023 Chardonnay is the best chardonnay I have ever made. 

All the Savaterre wines from 2022 are indeed from the best vintage of my life!.

It was a stunning vintage.

Warm days to ensure flavour ripeness followed by cool evenings to help retain acid. Rain at the right time to avoid disease and a long cool finish to the season to impart the subtle flavours we desire.

I am so incredibly pleased and proud of these wine.

Elegance, freshness, complexity, texture, plenitude and precision are the descriptors for this vintage.

The result is incredible.

I do not know where to start with this the 2023 Savaterre Chardonnay.

It is such a complete and complex tapestry of aromas, flavours and texture.

It’s the rare combination of power and amplitude combined with elegance, freshness, precision and tension.

The aroma distracts you from your everyday thoughts. It grabs you and keeps your attention. A subtle flint framing ethereal aromas of ripe grapefruit, curry leaf, preserved lemon, ginger, stone fruit, allspice and fennel.

Even as a young wine its potential is so obvious.

Once tasted I am transported. This is a wine that takes you on a journey of power balanced with finesse, complexity and extraordinary length. Constantly evolving and changing. Beautifully defined by its markedly tensing acidity and length.

Prodigious from the word go.

While currently in the hot flush of youth, this wine will age beautifully for 20 years.

Here a some reviews of our previous Savaterre Chardonnay release.

2019 Savaterre Chardonnay -

 "Light to mid-yellow colour, bright, with a complex, nutty, toasty, gentle smoky bouquet that leads into a richly layered, full-bodied palate that tracks the bouquet closely. Oak and lees characters play a leading role but aren't overdone. Delicious buttery richness on the palate, the fruit-sweetness splicing with savoury elements and leading into a tremendously long, satisfying finish that's beautifully balanced and appetising. A glorious chardonnay.
Rated : 97 Points "
Huon Hooke

 
"Powerful, concentrated and displaying soaring complexity, with precise clusters of berries, white butterscotch, gingerbread crumbs, glossy ripe peaches and red apples. Long, effortless and with a sensuous finish.

Rated : 97 Points "
Decanter World Wine Awards 2021 - Platinum Medal
 

" I like this a little better than the 2019 Giaconda. A bit more finesse and sense of decorum, though of course, somewhat different in style. Slight flinty smoky sulphide top note, McVitie's digestive biscuit, or oatmeal, looking sideways at tropical fruit, ripe lime and flowers, spice and preserved lemon. Tight, intense, chalky grip, lime and honey, flinty and stony, mouth-watering acidity, long and juicy, and slightly toasty and clove-spiced to close. Magic. Flavour and texture - 96 Points"
Gary Walsh - The Wine Front