Top 5 - Cuisine Magazine August 2017
Stylish restraint and is underlined by a little alcohol power providing drive and linearity. Mouthfeel is fine textured with a little phenolic grip, the acidity lending freshness to the firmness.
Pairing beautifully with subtly flavored, simply seasoned poultry and pork dishes.
Wrights Gisborne Reserve Chardonnay 2015
Wrights Gisborne Reserve Chardonnay 2015
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Awarded 5 Stars
Cuisine Magazine, August 2017
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"Organically grown by Geoff & Nicola Wright, the founders and proprietors of this Gisborne label, this Chardonnay excited the panel.It's an exuberant, big style, offering lifted, smoky stuck match notes and what John Belsham described as "creamy spicy warm ripe fruit". Try it alongside a leek and feta tart" Top 5 NZ Chardonnay, Cuisine Magazine, September 2017.
Bright straw yellow colour with pale green-gold hues, lighter on the rim. This has a firmly concentrated and very powerful and intense nose of white stonefruits entwined with gun flinty lees and complex minerally sulphide reduction notes, along with smoky and toasty oak elements, revealing a hint of earthiness. Full-bodied, the palate has a tightly concentrated core with rich white stonefruit flavours layered with flinty lees, minerals and earth, and nuances of spicy, toasty oak. The flavours show stylish restraint and is underlined by a little alcohol power providing drive and linearity. The mouthfeel is fine textured with a little phenolic grip, the acidity lending freshness to the firmness. The structure, power and acidity carry the fruit and oak flavours to a lingering, rounded finish. This is a firm and concentrated, rich Chardonnay from the Chardonnay Capital of New Zealand, Gisborne, Ormond Valley Appellation. Mendoza clone Chardonnay fully barrel-fermented to 15.0% alc. certified organic, the wine aged 11 months in new oak, the wine undergoing 2 months batonnage and full MLF.
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