Roast almonds, hazelnuts, clover honey & warm brioche
Showcasing Elston's ignature tight acidity, which gives the 2017 vintage incredible length & finesse
This wine is perfect paired alongside light and delicate food such as raw or lightly cooked shellfish like crab and prawns
Te Mata Estate Elston Hawkes Bay Chardonnay 2017
Te Mata Estate Elston Hawkes Bay Chardonnay 2017
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Showcasing a fine, pale gold colour in the glass, with notes of beeswax, white flowers, ripe peaches and flinty, wet, stone that flow through onto the palate. Roast almonds, hazelnuts, clover honey and warm brioche, along with this wine’s signature tight acidity, gives the 2017 vintage incredible length, detail and finesse.
Elston is named for Elston Hall in Nottinghamshire, the ancestral home of Charles Darwin’s family. Darwin’s ‘theory of natural selection’ forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory, the foundation of biology. The wyvern symbol of Elston Hall appears on the label.
The superb quality of the 2017 vintage was immediately apparent in the fully ripe grapes that were hand-harvested from their separate, individual plots within Te Mata Estate’s vineyards. Each parcel was gently whole-cluster pressed, cold settled and racked to new and seasoned French oak barrels for fermentation. The resulting wines remained in contact with their yeast lees while undergoing malolactic fermentation. The finest lots were selected for further maturation, spending a total of 11 months in barrel.
Elston Chardonnay is bottled with leading technology ‘DIAM’ corks. These are produced using a liquid form of carbon dioxide which eliminates any possibility of cork taint and, when the wine is well cellared, they provide consistent evolution for every bottle. This vintage will continue to evolve in bottle for five years from harvest.
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