LATITUDE CHARDONNAY

Golden Mile fruit has delivered a beautifully rich and weighty Chardonnay with an abundance of complex flavours.

Varietal	Chardonnay
Country	New Zealand
Region	Marlborough
Volume	750ml
Enclosure	Screw Cap
Alc/Vol	14.1%
Peak Drinking	0 – 5 years

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Latitude wines are crafted from grapes sourced from the ‘Golden Mile’; a strip of land covered with ancient sunstones and highly regarded for its outstanding grape-growing conditions. The resulting wines are aromatically lifted and riper in spectrum, a result of higher concentration of the stones in the area and the remarkable impact this has on the vines.

Aroma & Palate

This wine exhibits ripe stone fruit aromas with delightful complex characters of flint and smokiness on the nose. This flows through to a rich and creamy palate with ripe peach, caramel and notes of brioche, supported by toasty rich and creamy palate, exhibiting great intensity. A delightful chardonnay with fruit purity, vibrant acidity and flinty accents of the finish.

Food Matches

Serve lightly chilled on its own, or as an accompaniment to a wide range of succulent and rich dishes including white meat, poultry, pasta and fresh seafood.

WINEMAKING DETAILS

Grapes for this wine were machine harvested at the peak of flavour intensity, and bag pressed to remove the juice from the skins as quickly and gently as possible to avoid excessive phenolic extraction from the skins. Only the first cut, or free run juice was used for barrel fermentation. We inoculated this juice with various yeast strains. Barrels were lees stirred for up to 8 months to add palate weight and complexity.