Mahi Twin Valleys Chardonnay 2022

Mahi, meaning ‘our work, our craft’, began in 2001, fulfilling a dream for Brian and Nicola Bicknell. With a strong focus on single-vineyard wines from Marlborough, the idea behind Mahi is to respect and promote the individuality of those vineyards, and this focus of recognising and celebrating the diversity still continues. Since their first vintage they have built together a group of growers who are committed to their land and to the wines that come from it.

All of the vines reflect their ‘place’, their soils and aspects. All have been low cropped, hand-picked and fermented in the winery with the indigenous yeasts that arrive on the grapes. This is wine making with as little intervention as possible, so they truly reflect their sense of ‘place’ and the inspiration behind Mahi.

Grapes were hand-harvested from a small parcel in the Twin Valley Vineyard. The grapes were then whole-cluster pressed and the high-solids juice taken straight to French barriques for fermentation with indigenous yeast. After 15 months in oak, we felt the balance was correct and gently took the wine from barrel.