höfflin Goldammer Chardonnay 2022 - 0,75l

Höfflin Chardonnay 2022 is a dry Baden white from Chardonnay with apple and pear plus smoke, butter from French oak, and subtle petrol in Markgräflerland. This is Chardonnay with a golden edge and a very personal aromatic twist. Keep it slightly cool, then let the smoke and pear open slowly. It feels built for a table with roast fish, poultry, and hard cheese.

About the Wine
The 2022 Höfflin Chardonnay is rooted in Markgräflerland, the southern Baden district listed for this bottle, with vineyards on loess and limestone. That soil mix is reflected in the glass as apple flesh, pear skin, and a chalky line under the creamy middle. Höfflin carries a sustainable certification for this bottling. The fruit profile feels clean and exact, with ripe orchard notes leading the first impression. The alcohol sits at 13.5%, giving the wine a confident scale inside a Baden frame. In the cellar, this Chardonnay was aged in French oak barrels, with part of the wood new. The oak leaves a visible signature here: toasted popcorn, smoke and butter, plus a light oxidative note. A small petrol accent gives this 2022 Höfflin a quirky marker beside the barrel spice. That combination of petrol, popcorn and pear makes this bottle easy to recognise after one smell. The dry finish returns to pear core, smoke and gentle butter, with a faint browned-apple edge.

Tasting Notes
Apple and pear arrive first, then the aroma turns toward toasted popcorn, warm bread crust and the browned edge of butter in a pan. A light petroleum nuance follows, and it gives the wine a marker I would remember after tasting this Höfflin Chardonnay blind. The French oak shows as smoke, browned butter and a gentle oxidative tone, with the fruit carrying a ripe Markgräflerland warmth through the centre. The palate is dry and precise, with 13.5% alcohol adding breadth through the middle and a finish of pear core, spice and browned apple. Drink 2025-2030.

Food Pairing
Pour this Höfflin Chardonnay 2022 with roast cod in brown butter, where the pear fruit meets the fish and the toasted popcorn note echoes the sauce. It also suits scallops seared in their shells, prawns with garlic and lemon or a simple platter of grilled langoustines. For poultry, try roast chicken with tarragon cream or guinea fowl with mushrooms and pan juices. For a Baden nod, serve Badischer Flammkuchen with onions and smoked bacon; the wine’s smoky edge picks up the browned dough and the dry finish clears the richness. Aged Comté or mountain cheese also fits the butter, smoke and apple-skin finish.

Producer
Höfflin is most revealing here through one choice in its Chardonnay from Baden’s Markgräflerland: the producer uses French oak, includes some new barrels, and lets that barrel voice stay plainly audible from the opening pour. In the 2022 Höfflin Chardonnay the choice is easy to identify from the first smell, with toasted popcorn and smoke beside apple and pear before the wine has even warmed in the glass. The faint petroleum note is the detail I would remember after tasting it blind, an unusual accent in a Chardonnay shaped by barrel aging, butter and gentle oxidative depth. The sustainable certification gives a practical clue to Höfflin’s farming choices for this bottle, and the fruit reads clean in a way that suits the loess and limestone vineyard base named for the wine. On this bottle Höfflin treats oak as texture and spice, with orchard fruit held at the centre and butter appearing as a clear flavour with a browned popcorn edge. That producer fingerprint feels personal in the small details: pear skin on the finish, smoke tucked into the mid-palate, a light petrol accent and a dry 13.5% frame shaped for fish dishes and poultry with aged cheese.

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