Villa Maria Marlborough Single Vineyard Taylors Pass Chardonnay 2014
Accolades
Awarded Gold Medal
Air New Zealand Wine Awards 2015
Awarded Gold Medal
New Zealand International Wine Show 2015
Awarded Gold Medal
Marlborough Wine Show 2015
Description
This is a mineral driven wine style showcasing complex aromas of lemon rind, gun smoke and brioche forming a distinctive Taylors Pass Vineyard characteristic. This elegant Chardonnay displays stylish finesse, expressing flavour profiles of citrus, white peach and almond with subtle integrated oak enhancing the restrained seamless finish.
Serving suggestions: Pan fried Hapuku (grouper) cheeks in lemon and butter marinade or sautéed scallops with a rocket and melon salad.
This single vineyard site in the Awatere Valley is sheltered from the cooling southern weather patterns, resulting in a very warm mesoclimate allowing grapes to easily achieve physiological ripeness and fruit concentration in a cool climate region. In 2014, Marlborough had a warmer than usual spring, followed by a temperate summer, and a cool autumn. All grapes for this wine were harvested in late March 2014.
100% barrel fermentation including 30% new oak, a mixture of natural fermentation, the remainder inoculated with traditional isolated yeast strains. 100% malolactic fermentation, wine spending total of 8 months in oak.
The picturesque Taylors Pass Vineyard is located on the meandering Awatere River in Marlborough. With soils ranging from silt over gravels to stony gravels, the vineyard consistently produces intense, concentrated fruit.
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