Ripe, textural, fresh with sweet fruit & lees complexity
Pineapple, citrus & stone fruit flavours combine seamlessly with subtle toasty oak
Beautifully matched with roast chicken, fish and chips and oysters.
Babydoll Hawkes Bay Chardonnay 2016
Babydoll Hawkes Bay Chardonnay 2016
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This Chardonnay exhibits pineapple, citrus and stone fruit flavours combined seamlessly with subtle toasty oak. The palate is ripe and textural and fresh with sweet fruit, lees complexity and subtle oak with an elegant finish. Beautifully matched with roast chicken, fish and chips and oysters.
The fruit was gently picked and pressed to give fine fresh juices with a soft texture. The batches were kept separate and fermented with a range of vessels, temperatures and yeast strains to give complexity of aroma and mouth feel. After aging on full yeast lees with regular stirring the batches were blended and prepared for bottling.
The 2016 vintage was another great one for Chardonnay in Hawke’s Bay. The temperate spring yielded a moderate crop which ripened beautifully over the warm dry summer. The 2016 Chardonnay was sourced from a range of vineyards in the Korokipo, Crownthorpe, Bridge Pa, Clive, and Mangatahi sub regions of Hawke’s Bay. These vineyards are characterised by moderate temperatures and free draining soils, perfect for producing high quality fruit.
Having sheep graze in the vineyard cuts down on energy intensive mowing but has its pitfalls once the vines grow and the grapes emerge. Yealands Estate, a Marlborough winery that’s renowned for environmentally sustainable initiatives, has come up with an all-season solution. Our flock of Babydoll miniature sheep stand barely two feet tall. Too short to reach the fruit, these pint-sized organic-weeders provide year roundmowing and pest control, plus a handy dose of fertiliser. Nurtured from the ground up with sustainable practices and produced in a carbon zero certified winery, the pureandintense flavours of Babydoll reflect the winery’s innovative thinking in tune with the environment.
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