Jackson Estate Single Vineyard Shelter Belt Chardonnay White Wine 75cl

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Notes of fresh citrus, apple and box wood create an enticing entry to this wine. Combined with the underlying complex notes of white stone fruit, subtle melon and a classic minerality, this wine has bags of character in the glass. The palate follows in profile with layers of elegant complexity, a clean fresh acidity, and a long finish.

Each parcel of handpicked fruit was gently destemmed into small open top fermenters retaining a large proportion of whole berries. A pre-fermentation soak averaging 5 days preceded a warm and rapid indigenous fermentation where temperatures spiked between 30-33 °C. All batches were hand plunged as per winemaker's instruction. Post primary fermentation the young wine spent 16 days on skins totalling 33 days before being pressed to a mixture of new and older French oak barrels for maturation. Late spring natural malolactic fermentation initiated in all batches finishing in late December. Early February each batch was gently removed from barrel, tasted and assessed before blending and preparing for bottling.

The wine spent 10 months in 100% French oak barrels.

Suitable for Vegetarians
Suitable for Vegans
Contains Sulphites