TAPI Organic Chardonnay 2025

TAPI Organic Chardonnay is youthful and vibrant, opening with bright aromas of pink lady apple, ripe pear and white peach, lifted by a fine seam of vanilla and gentle wood spice. The palate is fleshy and textural, framed by fine oak-derived tannins and a light flinty minerality that carries through to a medium-plus finish. Sourced from certified organic vineyards on Marlborough's greywacke soils, this chardonnay balances real freshness and purity with genuine style and impact. Approachable from the day it's opened, it also has the structure to develop further over the coming years, and pairs well with roast chicken, grilled fish or creamy pasta.

What the winery says: Made from predominantly clone 95 fruit grown on 15-year-old, certified organic vines on Marlborough's greywacke soils, the grapes are machine-picked and destemmed in the vineyard before gentle pressing. Around 15% of the wine is barrel-fermented in old French oak barriques at a warmer temperature, with the remainder fermented in stainless steel; a portion is allowed through malolactic fermentation to build richness and roundness. The wine is aged on full lees for five months prior to bottling.

Cameron Douglas, MS, camdouglasms.com, 93 Points (2025 Vintage)

"Youthful, vibrant, fresh, enticing, varietal and engaging bouquet with a sense of site and lots of style with aromas and flavours of pink apple and pear, white peach and a fine seam of vanilla and wood spice qualities. Fleshy textures, fine fruit and wood tannins, a light flinty quality and medium+ length. A wine with style and impact, freshness and purity. Best drinking from day of purchase through 2030."