Auntsfield Single Vineyard Marlborough Chardonnay 2021

Auntsfield Single Vineyard Marlborough Chardonnay 2021"Exquisitely composed and styled, the wine shows lemon peel, fig, nougat and cashew nuances on the nose, leading to a wonderfully weighted palate offering pristine fruit flavours with seductive complexity. It's gorgeously textured with seamless flow, finishing impressively long and linear. At its best: 2024 to 2033" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Mar 2023 "Complex, youthful and new. Enticing fragrances of fresh white fleshed orchard fruits, crushed stones and

"Exquisitely composed and styled, the wine shows lemon peel, fig, nougat and cashew nuances on the nose, leading to a wonderfully weighted palate offering pristine fruit flavours with seductive complexity. It's gorgeously textured with seamless flow, finishing impressively long and linear. At its best: 2024 to 2033" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Mar 2023

"Complex, youthful and new. Enticing fragrances of fresh white fleshed orchard fruits, crushed stones and spices from French barrels. Nectarine and cashew nut, peach and vanilla spice, grapefruit and and a touch of toasty barrel. Youthful and taut as the wine touches the palate, saline and salivating acidity, flavours of citrus and stone fruits then barrel spices and some new wood power. Excellent structure and length, complexity and drive. Best drinking from late 2024 through 2030+" Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier, Jun 2023

Rich straw gold colour in the glass. Intense and complex, this wine displays aromas of peach skin, mandarin peel, and lemon tart, integrated with brioche and apricot nougart aromas from the French oak influence. Ripe and intense stone fruit flavours of peach and dried apricot complimented by subtle French oak influence giving hints of roasted hazelnut and fig. A tight and linier palate with underlying minerality concludes with seamless length.

Auntsfield continues the proud heritage of Marlborough’s first vineyard and winery established in 1873. Our Single Vineyard wines are made from grapes grown at Auntsfield Estate. Each wine shows the distinctive characteristics of ripeness, texture and minerality - qualities unique to the ancient Greywack e rock and Loess clay soils of the vineyard. Auntsfield produces Chardonnay with fine sse, restraint, honed focus and a textured mineral structure. Only the best fruit is used with the resulting wine showing a real sense of place that showcases the miner al structure of the old clay soils of the vineyard.

The 2021 season was another amazing vintage. Regular winter rainfall and an unseasonably cold spring kept cropping levels low. Summer was very dry but stayed relatively cool resulting in healthy vines with no disease or water stress. There was a slow progression into Autumn with a long drawn - out ripening period where the fruit reached optimum ripeness in perfect harvest conditions.

The fruit for this wine was hand harvested and whole bunch pressed . The juice was fermented in French oak barrels with indigenous (Auntsfield vineyard) yeast. Followed by extended barrel ageing on yeast lees. Maturation allowed the oak flavours to subtly integrate with the fruit and yeast lees characters and develop depth and complexity in the wine.