Hunter's
Chardonnay 2023 750ml

The wine has a complex, flinty nose with beautiful flavours of white peach and grapefruit characters with some citrus undertones.  The palate is tightly structured and shows some bright stone fruit and toasted hazelnuts.  Good balance from the toasty oak integration that complements the silky texture on the palate.  This wine drinks very well on release but will develop and evolve over the next 5-7 years.

Chardonnay grapes were sourced from the Rapaura and Omaka sub-regions of Marlborough.

We have been using the same vineyards for many years which gives the wine a certain level of consistency.

The grapes were picked by machine or hand depending on the block and pressed without sulphur to a stainless-steel vat. The cloudy juice was transferred into 500 litre French oak puncheons for fermentation. Indigenous yeasts were employed for alcoholic fermentation after which, 80% malolactic fermentation occurred. The wine was aged in puncheons on yeast lees for 12 months before being racked off its lees ready for bottling.