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The prominent aromas and flavours on the nose and palate are pear, citrus, almonds, green apple, litchi and melon. A crisp, fresh wine, yet balanced with primary Chardonnay fruit flavours and integrated oak vanillin. The grapes were hand picked in the early morning to ensure coolness. Forty five percent of the wine was fermented in stainless steel tanks. The remainder of the wine was fermented with its own indigenous yeast in French oak barrels, half in new barrels and half in second fill barrels. The wine underwent no malolactic fermentation and was left on the gross lees for eight months. It was then lightly fined and filtered before being bottled. The wine was allowed 8 months maturation in the bottle before being released. Fermentation temperature: 18 – 25°C Wood ageing: 55% of wine in barrel for 8 months (half in new, half in second fill). |
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