2015 Chardonnay

“50% mlf has conferred complexity, stablity and poise on one hand, and retained natural acidity on the other. This strikes a creamy chord that parlays well with the wine’s sheer extract, stone fruit and vanilla pod notes. The finish is long and emphatic, careening across a high-pitched scale of mineral crunch and layered complexity.”

95 points, James Halliday
Wine Companion

“Very jewelly and correct. If you were served this in Burgundy, you’d be thrilled. Still youthful and just the merest hint of matchstick but delightfully bright and crystalline.”

17.5 points, Jancis Robinson
jancisrobinson.com

Latent power. A Curly Flat signature. There’s a deep pool of fruit sitting deep in the palate, not drowning, not waving, just resting there, waiting for time to pull back the covers. Spicy/creamy oak, lemon curd, grapefruit and white peach, a sheet of sweet cedarwood tucked neatly about it all. This is chardonnay in straw-coloured guise, and yet it feels young; the real evolve is still ahead of us. It will come. It will be worth the wait. Oh the texture and the length.”

94 points, Campbell Mattinson
The Wine Front

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Our truly cool climate ensures an sublime, yet complex expression of Chardonnay that speaks with purity of time and place.

Bouquet
Sea breeze scents introduce the restrained, yet focused nose. Lemon curd, white peach, fresh roasted cashew with perfumed oak providing a sublime frame of cream and spice to the fruit.

Palate
An initially creamy, mealy palate lays solid stage for the characters of lime, lemon blossom and white peach. Finely spun texture and mineral acid ignite a luxuriously long palate line that pronounces the longevity of this wine. Great balance.

Cellaring
While enjoyment can be found now, the real rewards will come with cellaring, as a future of 12 – 15 years is assured such is its power and length.

Alcohol: 13.6%
Closure: Screw cap
Maturation: 18 months in 100% French oak (37% new)

How is this drinking now?
A powerful wine that’s now entering a more relaxed phase, still plenty of youthful charm of lemon curd/grapefruit being embellished by maturing complexity. Drink 2020-2030.

Harvest date	19th - 30th March 2015
Clones used	P58, I1V01, I1V03 & I1V05
Rootstock	Own roots, Teleki 5C & Kober 5bb
Vine age	15 to 22 years
Trellis	Lyre & Geneva Double Curtain
Soil type	Volcanic Basalt
Fruit Handling	Whole bunch pressed

pH	3.22
Titratable acidity g/L	7.2
Malic acidity g/L	1.6g/L
Baume / Alcohol	13.0%

Yeast	Inoculated
Malolactic fermentation	50%

New	52%
Second fill	35%
Third fill	13%
Maturation	18

Fining / filtration	Crossflow
Available formats	375ml, 750ml & 1.5lts

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