Wine Note A finely textured elegant style with a rich focused palate showing a lovely depth of luscious ripe fruit and beautifully integrated French oak. There is definitely potential for this wine to mature well over the next few of years. Harvest The grapes were harvested according to optimum flavour, brix and acid levels. Vinification Individual blocks and clones were hand selected and picked, then whole bunch pressed. Some of the juice was run directly from the press to barrels and was left to go through a wild fermentation. This wild ferment component was 40% of the final blend. The rest of the juice was lightly settled and then racked to tank for fermentation. Fermentation was initiated in tank and then the fermenting must was transferred to new and 1 year old French oak barrels. The blend received approximately 58% malolactic fermentation and was left on gross lees in barrels with weekly stirring for 11 months. Prior to bottling the wine was stabilized and filtered. Composition 79% Matariki Gimblett Road Vineyard Chardonnay, 21% Matariki Tuki Tuki Vineyard Chardonnay Barrel Percentage 87.5% New French oak barriques, 12.5% 1 yr old French barriques |
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