{"title":"Decanter Winners","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis selection have all received a coveted award from Decanter in their 2025 show. Engaging with wine lovers in more than 100 countries around the globe, Decanter provides authoritative content, independent advice and inspirational events and competitions. As the oldest consumer wine publication in the UK, Decanter was founded in London in 1975 following the success of wine columns in British newspapers.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"church-road-mcdonald-series-hawkes-bay-chardonnay-2023","title":"Church Road McDonald Series Hawke's Bay Chardonnay 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is an unashamedly full style of chardonnay that knows what it's about. It's pale in the glass with aromas of lemons, roasted nuts, struck match and just a hint of salty sea water. The palate is richly textured and complex with concentrated fruit, well-handled oak and stunning minerality that makes it refreshing and delivers ultimate drinkability\" Cuisine Magazine, Sep 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA medium bodied, supple Chardonnay balanced by a fine seam of fresh acidity with beautifully ripe stonefruit, fresh citrus and floral notes, overlaid with subtle complexities of gunflint, cashew nut, freshly baked bread. Already drinking exceptionally well, with careful cellaring we except this wine to continue to mature gracefully for 4 years or more from vintage date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSourced predominantly from the lower Tuki Tuki Valley, the soils here are calcareous clay loams, and in placed a clay pan, over alluvial gravels. This calcareous influence, a result of limestone erosion, lends a mineral edge to the wines while the dense clays and shallow pan, restrict vine vigour. 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This component was allowed to start a wild fermentation but was finished with a selected commercial yeast strain. 25% new oak was used to further enhance the depth of the wine without dominating the fruit. The wine was matured on full yest lees in barrel approximately 8 months with only occasional yeast lees stirring. 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