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Te Muna Estate
Martinborough
Butterworth
Butterworth Chardonnay 2022
$48.00
Sweet lifted spicy vanilla bean oak jumps from the glass, with creamy buttery undertones. Lifted notes of pretty floral reduction and ripe, freshly picked, white peach and apricot.
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Tasting Notes
Download PDFColour: Bright light golden hue..
Aroma: SSweet lifted spicy vanilla bean oak jumps from the glass, with creamy buttery undertones. Lifted notes of pretty floral reduction and ripe, freshly picked, white peach and apricott.
Palate: Sixteen months on Gross Lees has given the Butterworth Chardonnay a rich mid palate texture, adding layers to the racy acid line Te Muna is famous for. The grip from the phenolics add length and breadth to the back palate, giving a chalky, oyster shell finish
Winemakers Notes
The perfect grapes were harvested, then pressed straight to barrel without settling. The juice was fermented in 500L Puncheons and 228L mature barriques. Once dry, the wine went through full Malolactic fermentation while receiving 4 lees stirs over 4 months. After sulphuring the wine sat in barrel for 16 months for maturing. The wine received no fining, and only a light filtration before bottling.2
Harvest date: 21 and 26 March, 2020 - Brix 20.7, pH 3.05, TA 10.9 g/L
Wine analysis: Alc. 12.0 %, pH 3.09, TA 10.57g/L, Residual sugar <1 g/L
Oak Maturation: 100%, 27% new oak
Bottling date: 23rd Novembner 2023
Allergens: Contains sulphites
