Mission Estate Vineyard Selection Hawke's Bay Chardonnay 2019

Description

• Well-integrated oak
• Buttery
• Toasty
• Soft & rich

Hints of citrus with subtle vanilla and toasty notes. The palate is soft and textual with rich, buttery and juicy stonefruit flavours. The oak is well-integrated with brioche and grilled peach characters.

Gently pressed with minimal skin contact and a long, cool fermentation. The juice was inculated with specially developed, aromatic yeast strains to intensify varietal character development. Barrel-fermentation and 15 months' maturation on lees produced a bright, fruit-driven, complex style.

Fruit for this wine was carefully selected from some of Hawke's Bay's finest sites with the majority hand-harvested from the Mission Greenmeadows vineyard. Meticulous care was taken handling the fruit to retain flavour intensity and promote pure varietal character.

Cellar carefully for up to five years.