Mount Avoca 'Estate' Range Chardonnay Size::12 Bottle Case with our first pick starting

with our first pick starting two and a half weeks later than the previous average

" where a very cold and humid winter was followed by an almost complete lack of spring weather as the temperature jumped from very cold to very warm in a matter of days

look no further

Produced from the same plots as Château Haut-Bailly and made in the exact same way

weathered and calcareous sandstone

Mount Avoca 'Estate' Range Chardonnay Size::12 Bottle Case with our first pick startingThe grapes were harvested cool in the morning then pressed into tank and oak. The tank fermented portion (70%) was cool fermented and employed burgundy yeast. Yeast lees where periodically stirred back into the wine for 11 months thereafter to impart greater dimension and textural properties. The barrel fermented portion (30%) was fermented with a more fruit driven Portuguese yeast strain followed by complete malo lactic fermentation to enhance both