Lake Chalice The Raptor Marlborough Chardonnay 2020

Description

• French oak
• Stonefruit & citrus
• Toasted hazlenuts
• Concentrated & round

When we get there, we climb up onto the dry stone wall and sit down. We each take a peach, and as we are about to take a bite, we can smell both the peach and the dry stone flint on our hands. Are you getting it? To taste, you have to imagine taking in everything that surrounds us. The juicy ripe peach we’ve just bitten into, the spicy little biscuits, the majestic oak that gives us shade and the bright lemon blossom that covers the trees in the orchard. It’s a moment worth savouring. Shall we open the Chardonnay?

Pale gold in colour. Flinty notes on the nose combined with toasted hazelnuts and citrus. Concentrated, round and full with flavours of ripe peach, nectarine rounded by integrated oak and citrus blossom.

Sourced from the Reed vineyard from hand picked fruit.

Fermented for a full 10 months in a selection of new and seasoned French oak barriques from wild yeast.