2008 Chardonnay Reserve

VINEYARD: The hand-picked fruit comes from our clay-rich hillside Raupo Creek vineyard and the Home vineyard which is
made up of a variety of free draining Waimakiriri soils.

CLONES: Mendoza, UCD 15 and 95

VINIFICATION: The fruit was hand-sorted, whole-bunch pressed, then sent straight to barrel. Each parcel was naturally fermented in French Oak, twenty-five percent of which was new. Following primary fermentation the wine went through malolactic fermentation, which occurred naturally in barrel. During the tasting process barrels from four different parcels were selected and designated reserve. After 11 months in oak the wine was blended and lightly filtered and bottled without fining.

The finished wine has an alcohol of 14.0 percent, pH of 3.50, 5.1g/L titratable acid and 2g/L residual sugar.

WINEMAKER'S NOTES: The nose shows grapefruit, flint and a hint of gunsmoke. The palate is weighty with a focused acidity and savoury characters due to fermentation on solids.

CELLARING POTENTIAL: This wine is drinking well now and has the potential to improve over the next seven years.

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