Coopers Creek
Select Vineyards Chalk Ridge Viognier 2020 750ml

The fruit for this wine is sourced from the Chalk Ridge block just to the south of Havelock North. It is so named due to the amount of fractured limestone in the soil profile. It is a very steep vineyard and is very difficult to work (too steep for a tractor, so we had to purchase a crawler). The vineyard faces due north and is very warm during the day. The block is always hand-harvested. The fruit was whole bunch pressed and cool-fermented in tank. As soon as ferment was finished the wine was given a very light filtration and bottled.