This wine shows pure citrus fruit, creamy oak and a touch of savouriness on the palate with a lovely fresh finish. Showing surprising complexity for such a young wine and will age gracefully.
FOOD PAIRING
Mild risottos, chicken salads and seafood dishes.
Sutherland Chardonnay 2015 (6/case) (R124/BOTTLE)
This wine shows pure citrus fruit, creamy oak and a touch of savouriness on the palate with a lovely fresh finish. Showing surprising complexity for such a young wine and will age gracefully.
MATURATION Drinking well, and will develop for 4 more years.
FOOD PAIRING Mild risottos, chicken salads and seafood dishes.
VITICULTURAL PRACTICES
Varietal Chardonnay – Clones CY 270, CY 548A, CY 95/96 and 277D
Root stock Richter 110 and 101 – 14
Mgt Soil type Tukulu
Age of vines Planted August 2004
Plant density 2300 – 2500 vines/ha
Trellising 7 wire Perold with moveable foliage wires
Pruning Spur pruning
Yield Approximately 12.8 t/ha
Irrigation Drip irrigation
Vintage The earliest recorded harvest in Sutherland history! Cool summer days with very little rain, resulting in ideal growing conditions for grapes.
Picking date 30th January – 2nd February 2015
Grape sugar 22.0 – 22.6 °B
Acidity 6.16 – 7.29 g/l
pH at harvest 3.35
WINEMAKING PRACTICES
Yeasts Davis 522
Fermentation temp 19 °C
Method Alcoholic and malolactic fermentation in 228 L French oak barrels.
The wine spends 10 months on its gross fermentation lees, with the lees being stirred on a regular basis.
WINE DETAILS
Residual sugar 1.87 g/l
pH 3.27
Total acid 6.85 g/l
Alcohol 13.5%
Maturation 2016 – 2021
WINEMAKER’S COMMENTS
This wine shows pure citrus fruit, creamy oak and a touch of savouriness on the palate with a lovely fresh finish. Showing surprising complexity for such a young wine and will age gracefully.