Mission Estate Vineyard Selection Hawke's Bay Chardonnay 2016
Accolades
Awarded 4 Stars
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Awarded 88/100 Points
Cameron Douglas
Description
"Youthful and fragrant, the appealing bouquet shows ripe stone fruit, apple, rockmelon and subtle vanilla characters. The palate displays elegant fruit intensity and creamy texture with rounded mouthfeel and juicy acidity. Well balanced and smooth for easy drinking. At its best: now to 2019" Sam Kim Wine Orbit
The colour is pale straw and the nose has stone fruit and citrus aromas with some toasty notes. On the palate, spice and stone fruit flavours come through on the finish. The oak is subtle and well integrated. These flavours show through beautifully in the soft mouth-feel and clean finish.
This Chardonnay was machine harvested and the juice tank fermented. Only free run and light pressings was used in the fermentation. We blended a small portion of barrel fermented wine to enhance the wines complexity and depth of flavour. There was no malolactic fermentation.
Fruit was from selected Hawke’s Bay vineyards was chosen to produce this wine. These are vineyards with good free draining soils, planted with the Mendoza and 15 clones. After a cool spring, summer was a little late in really kicking off. But good heat arrived in January carrying through to mid-March. This resulted in average crop yields and fruit with good ripe flavours. Fruit was picked at full maturity after the final maturation in slightly cooler conditions in the later part of March and early April. The fruit was clean, showing good intensity.
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