Description
The pure age of these vines give the wine texture and palate weight. It is rich, floral and fleshy with mouth-filling, pear, crisp apple and spice flavours.
Alcohol
13.5%
Analytical data
semi-dry
10.2 g/l residual sugar
6.3 g/l acidity
3.28 pH
Vinification
Harvested in the cool hours of the morning they were gently pressed and fermented in stainless steel vats. A small parcel was fermented and aged in older French oak to add texture and palate weight. After blending the wine was left to settle before bottling on the Wairau River Estate.
Maturation
Stainless steel and aged French oak
Bottling
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