Auntsfield Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Rich straw gold in colour this Chardonnay has aromas of peaches, mandarin peel and lemon tart, integrated with brioche and crème brulee from the French Oak influence. The palate has ripe and intense stone fruit flavours of dried apricot and gives hints of roasted hazelnut. A tight and linier palate with underlying minerality concludes with seamless length.

The fruit for this wine was hand-harvested, whole bunch pressed, allowing clean and intensely flavoured juice to be pressed. Fermented in French oak barriques, with a combination of indigenous and cultured yeast, followed by extended barrel aging. Maturation allowed the oak flavours to gently integrate with the fruit and yeast lees characters and develop increased richness and complexity.