Te Whare Ra SV Chardonnay 22 (6x750ml)

This single vineyard release is solely from the 1979 planting on our TWR home block here at the winery. We have Mendoza clone Chardonnay planted here, and these vines are now 43 years old – some of the oldest in the Marlborough region. When we first tried this SV parcel in barrel, we knew it was something really special and so we decided to bottle this as a separate wine. The wine is made using traditional techniques. All the fruit was hand picked and then hand sorted. The grapes were then destemmed, crushed then gently pressed. The juice was run to tank for settling then we filled to oak the next morning. The juice was fermented in large format french oak demi-muids (33% new) and all went through full malo. The resulting wine spent around 10 months on full lees to provide texture and complexity.