Endeavour winemaker toasts his pride and joy

Right now, New Zealand’s most expensive white wine happens to be a chardonnay. This doesn’t surprise me because crafting great chardonnay can’t be done on the cheap. First, you need to find the perfect piece of land, then you need to source the best clones you can plant, then wait for years and years before you get any fruit and when you do you need to cut off most of the bunches before they’re even ripe so that the flavours in the surviving ones are as intense as possible.