Rock Ferry Corners Marlborough Chardonnay 2018

Description

• Unoaked
• Honey & nougat
• Lemon curd
• Crème brûlée

This Chardonnay has an intriguing bouquet of honey, nougat & nectarine with unique and distinctive flavours of vanilla bean, lemon curd and a little crème brûlée on the palate.

Their aim in the vineyard is to grow the best fruit they can so it can speak of its home and express its personality. To do this you need healthy vines and soil. By practicing organics and incorporating some biodynamic principles they believe they are doing their best to help achieve this and let their vineyards evolve and speak as they would like.

Mendoza Chardonnay was hand harvested , bunch sorted and then very gently whole bunched pressed .The free run juice was warm settled for 12 hours with no additions and the cloudy juice racked to a concrete egg for indigenous fermentation. The ferment was warm ( 25 degrees ) and the wine was left on full ferment lees for 8 months and underwent MLF during this aging. It was then racked off lees in March 2019 and bottled.