What the name means
New Zealand is the country origin. Its registered wine regions, including Marlborough, Hawke's Bay and Central Otago, provide more precise geographic names.
Research underway
Oyster Bay Chardonnay New Zealand White Wine
We have the store listing and package details. The deeper reporting for this wine is still underway.
- Style
- White wine
- Size
- 750 ml
- Grape
- Chardonnay
- Region
- New Zealand
- Shelf barcode
- 0870661008017
The prices we checked
Dated store checks, not a promise about your store.
- King Soopers, Glendale, CO$20.99
- Mariano's, Westmont, IL$17.99
- Kroger, Cincinnati, OH$14.99
- Kroger, Brentwood, TN$15.99
The regular price can vary by store and date.
From the producer
First vintage 1990, family-led
Oyster Bay says it released its first vintage in 1990, and that the same family has led the winery from the beginning, with vineyards in New Zealand's Marlborough and Hawke's Bay regions.
Research status
Where this page is headed
We are checking the current release, the producer record, and the bottle itself. Until that work is complete, this page reports only the facts carried by the dated store feed and shared region and grape research.
Getting to know New Zealand.
New Zealand's wine regions stretch about 1,600 kilometres from north to south. The ocean is a shared influence, but latitude, rain shadows and local landforms make the regions distinct.
How grapes grow here
No vineyard is more than 130 kilometres from the ocean, so maritime weather matters nationwide. Northern regions are warmer, southern regions are cooler, and mountains create dry eastern rain shadows in several major growing areas.
What lies under the vines
Young alluvial, volcanic, silt, sand and gravel soils recur across the country in different combinations. A New Zealand label without a region cannot assign the wine to one soil type.
How large the region is
- Producing vineyard area, 2026
- 43,299 hectares were reported in production.
- Producing vineyards, 2026
- The national report counted 2,019 producing vineyards.
Places within the region
- North and east
- Northland, Auckland, Gisborne and Hawke's Bay occupy generally warmer parts of the country.
- South
- Marlborough, Nelson, Canterbury and Central Otago include cooler growing areas at lower latitudes.
Getting to know Chardonnay.
Chardonnay is a white grape used for still and sparkling wine. It can be made without oak for a lighter shape or fermented and aged in oak for more weight.
Category guide
What to expect in the glass
Official category guides place citrus and apple at the cooler end and stone fruit or tropical fruit in riper examples. Oak and time on the spent yeast can add toast, spice and a rounder texture, but those features are winemaking choices rather than a guarantee.
Sources: New Zealand Winegrowers; Napa Valley Vintners. Checked Aug 10, 2026. See all 116 Chardonnay wines we cover →
Where this information comes from
- Store listing
- Price, package, product identifier, and shopper rating. Checked Sep 21, 2026.
- Barcode
- The shelf barcode shown here is computed from the store product identifier. It has not been checked against a bottle.
- Method
- Every price, rating and fact here is a dated observation. How we check.