Saint Clair Omaka Reserve Marlborough Chardonnay 2018

Description

• Stone fruit 
• Toasted oak spice 
• Vanilla 
• Lingering finish

Rich and complex with flavours of stone fruit and toasty oak spice. Pale gold in the glass. Fragrant ripe peach, toasted spice and subtle vanilla notes. Concentrated, elegant and silky with flavours of fresh peach, toasty oak spice, a hint of vanilla and roasted chestnut notes with a lingering finish. 

Sourced primarily from Saint Clair’s vineyards in Marlborough’s Omaka valley where a combination of warm days, cool nights and clay based soils contribute to greater retention of fruit flavours. The fruit is a blend of Chardonnay clones, predominantly Mendoza and Burgundian Clone 95. The vines were monitored carefully during ripening and hand harvested at optimum flavour maturity and physiological ripeness.

The fruit was lightly whole bunch pressed and the juice fermented in 65 percent American and 35 percent French oak barrels, fifty per cent of which were new, using selected yeast strains.The wine underwent malolactic fermentation, followed by ten months aging on yeast lees with regular stirring. Only the very best barrels were selected for the Omaka Reserve Chardonnay.

This is Saint Clair’s owners Neal and Judy Ibbotson’s perfect wine to have alongside succulent roast chicken with lemon and garlic.