Description
Experience a classic hand-picked Chardonnay from the Hawke’s Bay. Fruit from three well established vineyards with over 30-year-old vines have produced a full and rich wine, displaying stone-fruit flavours (peach/nectarine) with overlay of mandarin zest and white flowers. The palate has great texture, with well disguised tannin and elegant acid
Awards
Platinum Decanter Medal
95 pts Wine Orbit
Certifications
Alcohol
13.5%
Analytical data
semi-dry
Vineyard
Oban Station is situated in the rolling hills of Raukawa, Hawke’s Bay. This land has been farmed by the Richmond family for generations with the first vines planted in the early 1990’s.
The vineyard is planted on a North-North East facing steep hillside that gives it a great sun aspect, coupled with the wind coming over the hill, blowing away any potentially damaging frosts. The site was chosen due to its distinctive limestone and free draining loam soils, akin to Burgundy, and associated with quality. Its unique topography and soils ensure that only the best fruit comes off this block .
Vinification
Some barrel, using both Indigenous and cultured yeast