Mount Riley Marlborough Chardonnay 2015
Accolades
Awarded 4 Stars
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Awarded Best Buy
Cuisine Magazine
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Awarded NZ BEST BUY Chardonnay, Cuisine Magazine 2016
"88pts... The bouquet is instantly likable displaying ripe peach, rockmelon, vanilla and toasted almond notes. It is succulent and rounded on the palate, and shows lovely fruit purity as well as elegant oak complexity, making the wine smooth and very appealing. The wine is flavoursome while showing elegance and poise. At its best: now to 2018" Sam Kim Wine Orbit
Bright straw in colour. Bouquet Stone fruits, citrus and melon notes are complimented by spice, toast and complex aroma’s of oatmeal and nuts. An approachable Chardonnay with inviting fruit flavours and great texture and roundness. Some oak influence gives the wine complexity and length of flavour and complements the bright fruits.
Drinking well now, this wine will continue to drink well up to 2018. Match with cheese, light meats or creamy seafood dishes.
The grapes that went into this wine were grown in the Wairau Valley region of Marlborough. This Chardonnay is made up of a blend, 70% was fermented in new and seasoned French barriques and 30% was fermented in stainless steel. By doing this we crafted a wine with bright fruit forward characters yet with the complexity and depth of flavour imparted by fermentation in barrel. The portion of the blend that was fermented in oak underwent partial malolactic fermentation and was matured for 7 months on lees.
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Ken - 09/03/2017
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