2020 Chardonnay Select

A.B.V.  12.1%

R.S.  3.7 g/l

T.A.   5.06 g/l

FERMENTATION Carbonic/Ambient

ESTIMATED PEAK 2025-2027

SERVE 10-13°C

WINEMAKER'S NOTES The vintage was dry and low in humidity yielding smaller and more concentrated berries. After 7 days of carbonic maceration, we pressed into 1000L 3-year-old Slovenian oak vats. Ambient fermentation and malolactic conversion took around 4 months, then we transferred 50% to new 225L Moldovan oak barrels for an additional 6 months of maturation, while the rest stayed in the vats. We combined both lots before bottling.

SOMMELIER'S NOTES This is a very pleasing and easy to drink example of Chardonnay. The nose shows the baking spice of oak aging, but it is supported by fruit and non-fruit aromas. Ripe golden delicious apple, pear, and white peach with wafer and button mushroom. The palate is dry, fresh (acid), yet ripe, and long. I don’t need anything to enjoy this wine, but I am craving a classic beer-battered fish and chips with pickley tartar sauce. June 27^th, 2022, J.L.

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