Spoke2022 Amped Chardonnay, Spoke
Marlborough, South Island, New ZealandVintage: 2022
The 2022 Amped Chardonnay from Spoke Wines is a masterclass in textural Chardonnay. Spoke is the visionary collaboration between Liam Steevenson MW and Marlborough winemaker Ben Glover, whose decades of experience in the region are channelled into site-focused, expressive wines that reflect both land and hand.
This 100% Chardonnay hails from the Wilde vineyard, located in a cool maritime pocket of Marlborough and rooted in silt loam and clay soils. These conditions, combined with minimal intervention winemaking, result in a wine that is richly layered, yet beautifully restrained.
On the nose, bruised green apple, stone fruit and almond are immediately apparent, woven with delicate notes of white flowers and honey. The palate follows suit, dry, powerful and deeply complex, with its core defined not by overt acidity, but by minerality and finely grained phenolic texture. This gives the wine a structural integrity and savoury elegance that stands out among modern New Zealand Chardonnays.
Already compelling, the 2022 Amped Chardonnay is delicious now but built to evolve, promising even greater nuance and harmony over the next decade.
Notable Awards
93/100 – Decanter, 2024
92/100 – James Suckling ” Fresh lemon, green apple and cream fraiche notes followed by citrus blossom with matchbox and saline aromas. Medium-bodied, crisp acidity. Good minerality and freshness. From organically grown grapes.”
Whats in the bottle
100% Chardonnay
12 Mixed Bottles *
£19.76
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Description
The Dillon’s Point subregion of Marlborough in New Zealand is home to the Glover family and their wines. After four generations of dairy farmers lived and worked on this bit of land, Owen and Wendy Glover decided to give grapes a go and pioneered vine plantings in the subregion in the 1980s. Nineteen years on, the estate is run by winemaker and something of a local legend, Ben Glover. Ben is a winemaker well worth following. Since launching his career in 1995, Ben has worked at several top New Zealand estates, including Wither Hills, and was an inaugural 2001 Len Evans scholar. He has spent years honing his considerable skills, all the while working as a highly respected judge at national and international competitions. Today, Ben continues to be innovative and questioning, as illustrated by his collaboration with Liam Steevenson MW as part of the ethically and environmentally excellent SPOKE project. The wines of the estate reflect Ben’s trademark expressively elegant yet characterful style in aromatic wines of, as he describes it, ‘power and place that tread lightly on your palate’. As part of that, the estate achieved organic certification in time for the 2020 vintage.
Whole bunches go directly to clay amphora for a wild yeast fermentation, then transferred to old oak vessels for 6 months ageing.
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