2007 Neudorf Moutere Chardonnay

No, they don't pay us or harangue us, they just make damn good wine. In actual fact, I paid Neudorf for this particular wine, along with a few others to tuck away. So really, it is a little early to be opening a 2007 Neudorf Moutere Chardonnay, but friends turning up to watch the rugby with armloads of red meant grabbing a couple of handy whites to balance the night and my order from Neudorf was still sitting in its box in the hallway (plus it also helped to alleviate the pain of watching the All Blacks get beaten by the French. Again.). So out it came, and what a great wine it was. Enticing of nose, with ripe stonefruit and mealy, slightly nutty notes leading to a fine, balanced and elegant palate of ripe fruit and sensitively handled oak. This can be quite a bold wine in some vintages, and is often given over-enthusiastic cellaring potential estimations, but the 2007 is both pretty seamless and satisfying now and has a lovely degree of restraint and balance that suggests it should unfold nicely over the next five years or so. I have carefully tucked away my remaining bottles to ensure they are not sacrificed at the altar of grim rugby this coming weekend...

(EJ)

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