Te Mata Elston Chardonnay 2021 13.5% 750ml

Tasting Notes

Appearance
Brilliant white gold in the glass.

Aroma
Elston Chardonnay ’21 has wonderfully intense aromas of golden peach, apricot, and lemon zest.

Palate
Focused but flowing - this is a wine of precision, power, and poise. On the mouth-watering palate there’s oodles of ripe, white-fleshed fruit, nougat and nutmeg, integrated fine oak tannin, and just a flick of salinity. A long line of sweet citrus acidity, and ripe Hawke’s Bay chardonnay fruit, runs through here.

Vinification
Each parcel was gently whole-cluster pressed, cold settled and racked to new and seasoned French oak barrels for fermentation. The resulting wines remained in contact with their yeast lees, with a number going through malolactic fermentation. The fines lots were selected for further maturation, spending a total of 11 months in barrel.

Vintage notes
The superb quality of the 2021 vintage was immediately apparent in the fully ripe grapes that were hand-harvested from their separate, individual plots within Te Mata Estate’s vineyards between 15 and 27 February 2021.

PH
3.12

Acidity
7.7 g/L