Church Road Tom Chardonnay 750mL
Church Road Tom Chardonnay 750mL is 14% ABV. TOM chardonnay is a finely textured, yet full bodied wine of exceptional character and complexity. Hand harvested and hand sorting from extremely low cropping blocks on our Tuki Tuki and Omarunui vineyards, this wine is built around a core of fragrant fruit. A very natural, low intervention approach to winemaking including wild fermentation of unclarified juice and subsequent wild malolactic fermentations in a selection of their finest French Oak barrels has overlaid complexing aromas and flavours.
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About Church Road Chardonnay winemaking:
Each vineyard block was intensively managed prior to harvest, including extensive shoot and crop thinning as required to manage each vine to low yields. De-clumping and hand leaf plucking through the fruiting zone ensured minimal disease pressure. The three blocks were hand- harvested and sorted before gentle whole-bunch pressing. Juice was run directly to barrelwithout any clarification or additions. Each and every barrel was a separate press cut and the earlier press fractions have finer, longer texture, higher acidity and lower pH suitable for long term aging, and these barrels were eventually singled out for this wine.There is no juice clarificationstep and the wine is allowed to undergo spontaneous, wild fermentation, which can take up to eight months to complete on some barrels. Wild fermentation promotes positive aromatic and textural complexity due to a succession of different yeast species and strains that are notpresent to the same degree in inoculated fermentations. By the time the wines have finishedwild fermentation, they have also completed spontaneous malolactic fermentation, giving us a useful softening effect, resulting in wines that are naturally well balanced without any intervention required from the winemaker.The wines are aged in barrel on full yeast lees with periodic stirring to promote freshness and encourage the wild fermentations to complete.The wine was agedin tank on light yeast lees for a further year before being very lightly fined for textural polish. Clarification relied entirely on natural settling in 2014 and no filtration was required.
GTIN | 9414024574170 |
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Price / Unit | Bottle |
Bottle/Glass Size | 750mL |
ABV% | 14 |
Brand | Church Road |
Varietal | Chardonnay |
Country of Manufacture | New Zealand |
Vintage | 2016 |
Box | Yes |
Collector Rating | 3 |
Condition | New |
Closure | Screw Cap |
Serial Number | Yes |