Chardonnay 'Bannockburn'

• Chardonnay
• Grown mostly on the Elms vineyard in Blocks 2,6,8 & 9, with approximately 10% coming from Cornish Point vineyard
• A range of altitudes and aspects with the soils mostly deep schist gravels
• Hand harvested
• Whole bunch pressed with the juice flowing to barrel by gravity after overnight settling
• Fermented in French oak (mostly well-seasoned barrels with just 5% new) with native yeasts
• Malolactic fermentation occurred with only periodic stirring of the lees, combined with 11 months on the lees
• Aged for a total 13 months in barrel
• Bottled unfined and unfiltered

   

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