{"id":19421,"date":"2017-12-29T21:28:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T21:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=19421"},"modified":"2017-12-29T21:28:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T21:28:17","slug":"two-superb-kiwi-chardonnays-black-estate-home-and-tony-bish-golden-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/new-zealand\/two-superb-kiwi-chardonnays-black-estate-home-and-tony-bish-golden-egg","title":{"rendered":"Two superb Kiwi Chardonnays: Black Estate Home and Tony Bish Golden Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19422\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1365-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"golden egg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1365-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1365-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1365-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1365.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just been for a short break in Akaroa, and tried a couple of very nice Chardonnays. One was from Tony Bish, long-time Hawke&#8217;s Bay winemaker with Sacred Hill who has begun making wines under his own label &#8211; and this one is fermented and matured in concrete eggs. The second is from Black Estate in the Waipara, North Canterbury, and this is the second time I&#8217;ve had this wine in the last few weeks. It&#8217;s not expensive, either.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony Bish Golden Egg Chardonnay 2015 Hawke\u2019s Bay, New Zealand<\/strong><br \/>\n13.5% alcohol. This is lovely. It\u2019s rich but fresh with some peachy, spicy depth, some pear skin bite, and bright citrus notes, with a lovely fine grained, stony texture. There\u2019s a really nice finish here, too. Very fine: the effect of the egg on the texture is really apparent. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19423\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1394-500x335.jpg\" alt=\"black estate home\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1394-500x335.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1394-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1394-400x268.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1394.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Black Estate Home Chardonnay 2016 North Canterbury, New Zealand<\/strong><br \/>\nLively and vital with nuts, spice, lemon and pineapple notes all adding complexity. Lovely acidity here with focus and purity. Complex and delicious with real potential. 94\/100<\/p>\n<p>Find these wines with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just been for a short break in Akaroa, and tried a couple of very nice Chardonnays. One was from Tony Bish, long-time Hawke&#8217;s Bay winemaker with Sacred Hill who has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,9],"tags":[380,12,352,309],"class_list":["post-19421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chardonnay","category-new-zealand","tag-chardonnay","tag-hawkes-bay","tag-new-zealand","tag-north-canterbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19424,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421\/revisions\/19424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}