"It is savoury, complex and engaging on the nose showing baked apple, lemon peel, peach and spicy oak aromas with nuances of oatmeal and vanilla. The palate is elegantly weighted and finely textured, and delivers bright fruit flavours with flinty/waxy undertones, brilliantly structured by crisp acidity. At its best: now to 2019" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Oct 2017

'Bright, light golden-yellow colour with some depth, lighter on edge. The nose is elegantly concentrated with finely packed and deep aromas of ripe yellow stonefruit entwined with nutty oak and oxidative complexities, unfolding citrus fruit notes with aeration. Medium-bodied, the palte has a tightly concentrated core with flavours of yellow stonefruits melded with nutty notes, a little creamy barrel-ferment and complexing oxidative elements. The palate features a firm, fine-textured line with crisp acidity providing freshness and energy. Citrus flavours emerge as the wine leads to a tight, lingering finish. This is a firm and concentrated Chardonnay with tightly bound flavours of stonefruit and citrus fruit and complex nutty and oxidative notes on a crisp palate. Serve with seafood and poultry over the next 3+ years. Clone 15 and Mendoza fruit from ‘Julicher Estate’, WBP and fermented in seasoned French oak to 13.13% alc., the wine aged 10 months on lees in barrel, undergoing partial MLF" Raymond Chan, Oct 2017

Golden straw in the glass with creamy, toasty and slightly smoky nose with aromas of grapefruit and lemon. Savoury and creamy texture with underlying flavours of peach and passion fruit. Rich, elegant and smooth with a long finish.

Julicher Estate (pronounced ‘U-li-ka’) is a family-owned boutique Martinborough winery focusing on the production of prestige quality wine with distinctive fruit flavours. All Julicher wines are estate grown on their 20 hectares of vineyards on the Te Muna Terraces. The soils of which, are free-draining alluvial gravel, which are rich in minerals making it ideal for
growing grapes. The climate is an extension of Martinborough and similar to Burgundy, being only slightly cooler due to higher altitude, but with long cool summers and low rainfall providing the optimum long ripening conditions for grapes

For this vintage of the Julicher Chardonnay grapes were 100% sustainably farmed from a single vineyard. The 2015 vinatage was naturally low-yielding due to variable spring weather, and as a result the 2015 wines demonstrate an intensity of both flavour and structure due to Julicher's hands-on vineyard and winemaking philosophy.

In the winery grapes were whole-bunch pressed with short skin contact. The juice was then cold-settled in a tank and racked to old French oak barrels for fermentation. After fermentation the wine was aged on lees for 10 months and underwent partial malolactic fermentation. For current drinking, but will age gracefully.

Food Pairing: Serve chilled alongside South-East Asian flavours such as lime, chilli & coriander.