Lake Chalice The Raptor Chardonnay 2018

When we get there, we climb up on to the dry stone wall and sit down. We each take a peach, and as we are about to take a bite, we can smell both the peach and the dry stone flint on our hands. Are you getting it? To taste, you have to imagine taking in everything that surrounds us. The juicy ripe peach we’ve just bitten into, the spicy little biscuits, the majestic oak that gives us shade and the bright lemon blossom that covers the trees in the orchard.

Region: Central Wairau Valley, Marlborough Style: Dry Vineyard: Sourced from the Reed vineyard from handpicked fruit.

Fermented for a full 10 months in a selection of new and seasoned French oak barriques from wild yeast.