Black Barn Barrel Fermented Hawke's Bay Chardonnay 2022

Description

• French oak
• Citrus peel
• Tropical fruits
• Textured

Lemon straw with a green hue. Aromas of citrus peel, fig, tropical fruits and toasty oak. A multi-layered palate texture with well integrated vanillin oak & a seamless finish.

Individual vineyard parcels of Chardonnay were hand picked. Each parcel was whole bunch pressed. The free run juice was either filled directly to French oak barrels or settles overnight prior to filling to oak. No additions were made. The juice was fermented in French oak barrels, with a mix of indigenous and cultured yeast. Regular stirring of lees until early Spring. The wine was left in barrel on full yeast lees until Feb 2022 (11 months in oak), when it was racked, blended, fined and bottled.