Jules Taylor Chardonnay

Origin: New Zealand
Terroir: Marlborough

Winemakers Notes
The fashion for chardonnay used to be the big, buttery, oaky wine. Do we care for fashion? Pah! This is a wine that is fresh and has great fruit flavours that expresses the vineyard it was plucked from.

Aroma & Flavour
The wine is straw yellow in colour. The aroma offers an abundance of ripe stonefruits and citrus. These fresh notes are complimented with creamy layers from the wild and malolactic ferments. Memories of baked pastries and toasted nuts come to mind. It has a deliciously smooth yet juicy palate where flavours of stonefruits intertwine with the creamy and toasty characters. It is a wine with veiled complexity and richness but with a refreshing finish.

Vinification
The fruit for this wine came from two unique vineyards in Marlborough’s Southern Valleys, Meadowbank Estate up the Taylor Pass and Anderson Vineyard in the Brancott valley. The grapes were harvested carefully by hand and machine then taken to the winery for transformation into liquid gold using a variety of techniques. Whole cluster pressed portions went directly into French oak barrels for a wild ferment on light solids. Other portions were tank fermented and some were cold settled and partially tank fermented and then sent to barrels midferment. The yeast lees in the barrels were stirred frequently over a nine month period to add body and complexity, and the wine underwent full malolactic fermentation to stabilise the wine. After its extended nap in the barrels, the various parcels were pumped back to tank, blended then bottled.