Villa Maria Cellar Selection Marlborough Chardonnay 2015
Accolades
Awarded Gold Medal
NZ International Wine Competition 2016
Description
The 2015 Cellar Selection Marlborough Chardonnay has complex aromas of toasted almonds, oat meal and ripe peaches. On the palate are ripe citrus flavours balanced with savoury baking spices such as clove and cardamom with a rich textural finish.
A perfect match with salmon.
The climate in Marlborough has high sunshine hours, but temperatures during the growing season are regulated by the cooling ocean influence. Vintage 2015 will be remembered as one of the strong years due to a great summer and modest crop levels. With very low rainfall going back to winter 2014 and a cool spring, but with timely rainfall at the beginning of harvest giving the vines the lift they needed to push the fruit through to perfect ripeness.
A mixture of hand harvested whole bunch pressed fruit as well as selective machine harvested fruit whole berry pressed without crushing. The resulting juice was then transferred to barriques for fermentation.
100% barrel fermentation utilizing cultured and indigenous yeast strains, followed by 100% malolactic fermentation. The final blend has 10% new French oak, 90% seasoned French oak, spending a total of 8 months in oak.
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