Owned and operated by chief winemaker Tim Turvey he established the vineyard in 1988 after being told it was ‘too cold’ to grow there. His wines are amongst the most highly decorated in New Zealand history. Over the last 15 years Clearview wines have won over 8 trophies, 33 Gold & 80 Silver medals
Production remains small for his worldwide audience and allocations into the UK will always be limited.

Reserve Chardonnay 2006
Picked from our 20 year old vines and some of our newer plantings from our Te Awanga vineyards. 10 different soil types in the vineyard, 6 different picking times, 5 different barrel makers all contribute to the complexity of this iconic wine.
The balance of fruit, acid oak and flavours is impeccable, whilst maintaining the trademark power. The result is a rounded and integrated wine with a luscious creamy texture. Beautifully ripe tropical and stone-fruit characters and a back bone of toasty oak integrated with acid means that this wine will cellar well for many years.

Hand harvested at 24-25 Brix, 40% of the grapes were given 6-10 hours skin contact, the rest were whole bunch pressed before the free run juice was fermented in 50% new oak of which 95% was French and 5% American. 4 different types of yeast were used including some wild ferments. The wine was aged for 11 months with weekly stirring of the lees using 5 different barrel makers.
14.5% Alc Vol
Gold- Bragato Wine Awards 2007 - Aug 2007
Gold – NZ International Wine Show - Sept 2007