2020 Growers Oaked Chardonnay

These grapes were hand harvested and whole cluster pressed the grapes in our gentle bladder press. A long, slow press cycle was used to allow maximum juice yield without compromising flavour extraction. The juice was cold settled in a stainless tank before racking into barrels for alcoholic and malolactic fermentations. The majority of this blend goes into our 1100 litre French Oak cask where it was monitored and tasted for 10 months, before any sulphur additions took place. The remainder of chardonnay in this blend went into barrels that were carefully selected and monitored for 10 months. After aging was complete, specific barrels were selected from different vineyard lots to create the blend. All selected barrels were blended into tank where the blend was cold stabilized, gently fined and lightly filtered to preserve the wine without stripping the flavours and textures, before bottling.