Muddy Water Deliverance Waipara Chardonnay 2020

Description

• French oak
• Pineapple & white peach
• Subtle nutmeg
• Cream

Golden yellow in the glass, this Waipara Chardonnay is full-bodied and intensely flavoured. Fresh and inviting nose of pineapple, white peach and cream. The palate is full and flavoursome with masses of peach, subtle barrel charachters with hints of nutmeg. A rich and delicious Chardonnay perfect for savouring now.

Three quarters of this Chardonnay were sourced from a single vineyard grown on the Glasnevin Graves, North Cantebury. The remainder was grown organically on the clay soils at Muddy Water. The vines were carefully hand-pruned, and fruit harvest in mid-April after a warm, dry growing season. The fruit attained optimum ripeness in the dry Autumn weather. Seed lignification and skin ripeness give the wine a full-bodied fruit-filled balanced palate.

Picked in mid March after a particularly fine period of weather, the Chardonnay fruit was pristine condition. After a long gentle pressing the new juice was settled for two days without fining before being transferred to French oak Puncheons for fermentation. Winemarkers allowed the wine to go through full natural malo-lactic fermentation in oak before blending together. This wine was bottled onsite without fining, nine months after harvest.