Сhardonnay, Jackson Estate, Shelter Belt, Marlborough
Interesting Facts
Made from fruit harvested from the Jackson Estate Homestead vineyard, this wine is an expression of a single clone and single site. Intensive hands-on viticulture including short and fruit thinning, hand picking and sorting are incorporated to optimize fruit and wine quality. The fruit was whole bunch loaded to press and cut to taste by the winemaker, with 75% of the juice going to barrel with a high proportion of solids and 25% remaining in stainless tanks. The barrel portion contained 25% new oak with the rest made up of 2-5 year old barrels. Fermentation was carried out in both stainless tanks and French barrel’s by indigenous yeasts and reached a maximum temperature of 25°C. The young wines remained on their ferment lees over winter and began natural malolactic fermentation in the spring. Aged for 9 months in oak, the barrel batch was racked, assessed and blended with the aged tank portion and prepared for bottle late March .
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