Grown at the Keltern vineyard, a warm, inland site east of Maraekakaho in Hawkes's Bay, it is fermented with indigenous yeasts and lees-aged for 10 months in French oak barriques. Creamy and biscuity, it is very rich, mouthfilling, and rounded , with concentrated tropical-fruit flavours, nutty, mealy and slightly minerally. Full of personality, it shows outstanding complexity and harmony.

A marriage of intense, ripe Marlborough fruit with premium French Oak, it is one of the region's greatest Chardonnays. With its rich, slightly mealy, stonefruity flavours, this is a distinguished wine, very concentrated and finely structured, that should blossom with cellaring.