Mahi
The Wrekin Chardonnay 2024 750ml

New Release

We had been tasting some of the wines off The Wrekin vineyard for a number of years so when the opportunity came about to secure a small parcel of Chardonnay we jumped at it. A special site that sits by itself at the sheltered end of a gully, on the southern slopes of the Wairau Valley at the head of the Brancott. The vineyard is elevated and rolling and sits on aged clay, overlaying greywacke soils. Intense but sensitive hands-on management, by a great team under organic and biodynamic regimes, combined with low crops and this special site creates deep and unique fruit characters and structure.  All of the grapes were hand-picked and then whole-cluster pressed. The resulting juice went straight to French oak barrels and fermented with indigenous yeast from the vineyard. After fermentation the wine sat on yeast lees for fifteen months prior to bottling.