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Tasting Notes

A classic cool climate chardonnay nose of citrus, tropical notes and nectarine. The soft, creamy palate has a long and strong mineral spine. The flavours continue to build while the wine is in the mouth and long after.

Winemaking

The fruit is always lovingly hand picked and then given a light chill at Morning Sun, in order to preserve freshness right up to the moment the juice is coaxed from the grapes in the winery.

Whole bunches were loaded into the press and gently squeezed with minimum agitation. This produces beautiful juice with just a few cloudy solids, an ideal recipe for flavour, complexity and texture. This juice was run directly into barrel (25% new and all French) and inoculated for ferment with a variety of different yeasts.

Stirring of the fermenting juice in the latter part of the ferment and after completion both helped the yeast finish the job and added softness and a gentle mealy character to the wine.

After 10 months in barrel the wine was gently fined and filtered before bottling in February 2007.