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Tasting Note
A wine of exceptional style and elegance, created from hand-picked Hawkes Bay Chardonnay grapes, noted for their intense and powerful flavours.
Our award winning winemakers pressed the grapes in bunches, the wine was gently fermented and lees aged in French oak barriques. The result is a fine premium wine, displaying superb integration of fruit and oak with softness, fullness and length of flavour.
Reviews
"Rich, even more complex than the Black Label. Very concentrated, with an extra dimension." "If you love great chardonnay, don't miss it - its one of the most glorious white wines ever made here." Micheal Cooper, MEQ 18
"Deeply flavoured and as long as a perfect summer, it is fine enough to be impressive in the best company. In short, very smart wine. silky as Christmas knickers and beautifully polished to look its absolute best." Listener January 12th 2002
Wine Detail
Grape Variety - Chardonnay
Region - Hawkes Bay
Wine Analysis
Date of Harvest - 27th March 1998
Brix at Harvest - 23.8
Fermentation - 100% barrel fermented
Bottling Date - 30th July 1999
Alcohol Volume - 13.5%
Acidity - 6.20 g/l
pH - 3.34
Optimum quality will be after 4-6 years cellaring.
