A fantastic vibrant & buttery vintage
Butterscotch, toffee apple notes combine with fresh peach & grapefruit
Delicious with subtle flavours of seafood or pork
Windrush Empire Marlborough Chardonnay 2020
Windrush Empire Marlborough Chardonnay 2020
Description
- French oak
- Toffee apple
- Stonefruit
- Lingering finish
Similar to 2019, with a bit more citrus and a hint of flinty wild fermentation. Aromas of toffee apple, peach & grapefruit & a hint of flinty wild fermentation. Palate of creamy stone fruit, butterscotch a fine minerality & lingering finish.
Callum & Sarah Linklater, second generation organic producers. They have family owned certified organic vineyards in Marlborough producing chardonnay, pinot noir & sauvignon blanc.
They experienced a long hot and dry summer in Marlborough which were ideal conditions for Chardonnay. Hand picked on the 23rd March with Covid19 lockdown almost upon us.
Whole bunch pressed with minimal Sulphur additions, cold settled then racked to five French oak barrels. 20% New oak. 100% fermented with indigenous yeasts. Post ferment, the barrels underwent lees stirring & malolactic fermentation over the winter months. Bottled early, fresh and vibrant.
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