Claymore Voodoo Child Chardonnay 2024

Love the label – these guys so often offer fabulous labels, but fortunately, they also offer bottles with cracking wines within. After their own Chardonnay vineyard was hit by black frost in 2023, ‘grower friends’ provided the fruit to allow this wine to rejoin the portfolio. Partial malo and gentle French oak all contribute to the final product. Yellow gold in colour, the nose exhibits some smoky oak influences, along with peaches, a flick of citrus, stonefruits and ginger. There is good concentration throughout and the wine finishes with a slight sour/bitter almond note which helps to tie things together on the finish. A wine of good intensity and decent length for enjoying over the next two to four years, but well cellared examples will provide pleasure for several years beyond that.