Kim Crawford Hawkes Bay Chardonnay 2025

Kim Crawford Hawkes Bay Chardonnay draws on the region's warm days and settled autumns to build real fruit concentration, with lifted aromas of citrus and stone fruit joined by notes of tropical fruit and pineapple. On the palate it is approachable and full-bodied, offering a creamy, medium-weight texture with hints of butterscotch and lemon meringue pie that carry through to a long, persistent finish. It is an easy, crowd-pleasing style of chardonnay, equally at home poured on its own or served alongside camembert, pan-seared salmon or other white meat dishes.

What the winery says:

Kim Crawford describes its Hawkes Bay Chardonnay as a wine built for great fruit concentration and texture, drawing on the region's stonefruit character balanced by fresh citrus notes. The producer notes hints of butterscotch and a great length of flavour, the result of time on primary yeast lees through to racking and blending, with secondary malolactic fermentation adding to the wine's rounded, creamy mouthfeel. Kim Crawford, founded in a small Auckland cottage in 1996, positions the wine as an unconventional, approachable style suited to everyday drinking and easy food pairing.