Lake Chalice The Falcon Marlborough Chardonnay 2022

Description

Cream, Oak, Peach

"Aromas and flavours of vanilla cream and peaches, ripe yellow apple and moments of barrel smoke. On the palate, a dry wine with a satin-cream touch, fine layers of tannins accentuate the butterscotch and peach qualities then acidity carries the fruit flavours throughout. Balanced, well made and ready with moderate length and concentration. A wine of value and style, length and persistence. Best drinking from 2024 through 2028" Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier, Dec 2023

Citrus and melon with subtle notes of caramel on the nose. The palate is ripe peach, fresh, luscious and tropical citrus with hints of lemon zest and pastry. Vegan friendly.

Sourced from carefully selected fruit from the ancient fertile floodplain within Marlborough's Wairau Valley. Fermented in a mixture of tank and French oak cask before ageing on lees for 7 months to enhance texture. A fresh tropical Chardonnay that has a ripe peach palate with hints of lemon zest and pastry notes on the finish.

The majority of fruit is harvested from our Falcon Vineyard and blended with other carefully selected blocks from Marlborough’s Wairau Valley.

Fermented in warm controlled stainless steel tanks then and matured for nine months to soften the tannins in this wine. The final wine was blended by Chloe and prepared for bottling.