
Sutherland Chardonnay 2012
This wine has a beautiful light straw colour with hints of green. The nose shows pure marmalade fruit and complex yeasty flavours in a nice harmony with toasty oak. The palate is clean and pure with a lovely texture and finishes long.
Maturation
Drinking well, and will develop for 4 more years.
Food Pairing
Mild risottos, chicken salads and seafood dishes.
Winemaker's Comments
Fresh citrus flavours combine brilliantly with toasty, creamy oak. This wine has pure, clean fruit, leaving one with a lovely fresh finish. This wine shows surprising complexity for such a young wine. Will age gracefully.
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Tasting Notes
Viticultural Practices
Varietal | Chardonnay – Clones CY 270, CY 548A, CY 95/96 and 277D |
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Root stock | Richter 110 and 101 – 14 Mgt |
Soil type | Tukulu |
Age of vines | Planted August 2004 |
Plant density | 2300 – 2500 vines/ha |
Trellising | 7 wire Perold with moveable foliage wires |
Pruning | Spur pruning |
Yield | 16.32 t/ha |
Irrigation | Drip irrigation |
Vintage | Dry season with cool weather during the ripening period resulting in ideal conditions for production of elegant, well balanced white wines |
Picking date | 12th – 28th February 2012 |
Grape sugar | 23.51 °B |
Acidity | 6.05 g/l |
pH at harvest | 3.45 |
Winemaking Practices
Yeasts | Davis 522 |
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Fermentation temp | 19 °C |
Method | Alcoholic and malolactic fermentation in 228 L French oak barrels. The wine spends 10 months on its gross fermentation lees, with the lees being stirred every fortnight. |
Wine Details
Production | 26 000 bottles |
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Residual sugar | 1.7 g/l |
pH | 3.31 |
Total acid | 6.3 g/l |
Alcohol | 13.72% |
Maturation | 2014 – 2018 |
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