Fromm Chardonnay Clayvin Vineyard 2011

Fruit from Marlborough’s fabled Clayvin Vineyard is behind two of our Top 10 wines. Lovely restrained white-flower scents lead to a fascinating mouthful with white pepper and marzipan underpinned with a line of racy acidity. Noted Steve Smith, “It flows like a silk robe on someone very sexy.”