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Tasting Note
The first release of the White Label Reserve will be a hard act to follow. The nose is complex with apricots, pineapples and rock melon fruit characters mingled with subtle butter and sweet oak vanillin.
The palate is rich and long due to partial malolactic fermentation and careful fruit handling.
Accolades
Silver Medal, Liquorland Top 100 2002
Reviews
"Hawkes Bay wine, smooth, rich and mature. There are apricot, pineapple and vanilla oak aromas and flavours. Creamy and balanced, it's probably at its peak." Graeme Barrow, July 2002
Wine Detail
Grape Variety - Chardonnay
Region - Hawkes Bay
Wine Analysis
Date of Harvest - 19th March 1999
Brix at Harvest - 23.0
Fermentation - New French Oak barriques
Maturation - 12 month in new oak barriques
Malo-lactic - 15%
Bottling Date - May 2000
Alcohol Volume - 13.5%
Acidity - 6.45 g/l
pH - 3.30
