2021 Bilancia Kaikora Chardonnay

Highly Rated
Bilancia |Hawkes Bay |Chardonnay
Single vineyard Hawke's Bay Chardonnay. This is a big, bold and beautiful wine from one of the region's best producers.
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Description

The Kaikora is a single vineyard Chardonnay from Central Hawke’s Bay. Grown on decomposed clay soils similar to Sancerre, this Chardonnay offers fine acidity, subtle oak, and lively freshness.

Bilancia, founded by Lorraine Leheny and Warren Gibson, is known for its balanced and harmonious wines. The Kaikora Vineyard in Ōtāne, planted with clone UCD15 Chardonnay, highlights the unique Pakohe (argillite) soils. 

It's rich in weight but also shows ripe stonefruit, flint, and pink grapefruit with a full, viscous texture. 

This is a serious Chardonnay from an outstanding producer. Top flight Hawke's Bay.

95 points
"Pure, ripe, fruity, fresh, elelgant and alluring bouquet. Aromas of ripe white peach and pear, fresh red apple and a core seam of minerality and fine lees complexity. A wine of texture and mouthfeel with a vibrato and quiver as the wine touches the palate, an umani with flavours of lemon and peach, apple and lees and barrel spice. Very lengthy, fine and high quality. Great drinking from 2023 through 2029."
- Cameron Douglas MS 

95 points - "Pure, ripe, fruity, fresh, elelgant and alluring bouquet. Aromas of ripe white peach and pear, fresh red apple and a core seam of minerality and fine lees complexity. A wine of texture and mouthfeel with a vibrato and quiver as the wine touches the palate, an umani with flavours of lemon and peach, apple and lees and barrel spice. Very lengthy, fine and high quality. Great drinking from 2023 through 2029." - Cameron Douglas MS

94 points - "Intense and slightly syrupy chardonnay with grapefruit, ginger, oyster shell, ripe apple and spicy oak flavours. Textural wine with a line of taut acidity that helps drive a lingering finish. Should age well." - Bob Campbell MW (The Real Review)

94 points - "Interesting expression here marrying flinty-minerally elements, creamy-lactic notes and strong, ripe citrus characters between bouquet and palate with a suggestion of nutty savouriness underlying. A bit of an ‘old school-good school’ kinda feel with plenty of flavour and supple texture on hand – one for cellaring to let mellow and honey up. Flavours distinctly minerally, river pebble and flinty, so get set for that. Very good in its way." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

Customer Reviews

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  • JP
    Jojo P.
    Verified Buyer
    12 seconds ago
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Bilancia is not just an ordinary NZ Chardonnay

    Warren spent years in the Italian wine industry. With this experience and his passion of bringing an extraordinary wine for us to savour, he didn’t stop until it’s the best at Hawke’s Bay. It’s simply outstanding.

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Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type White
Body Full Bodied
Variety Chardonnay
Country New Zealand
Region Hawkes Bay
Feature Women in Wine
High Score
Reviewed By The Real Review
The Wine Front
Cameron Douglas MS
Size 750ml
Vintage 2021
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