Te Mata Elston Chardonnay

Te Mata Elston Chardonnay

$62.00
6 + $55.80 each
12 + $51.77 each
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Variety

Chardonnay

Vintage

2023

Size

750ml

Country

New Zealand

Region

Hawke's Bay

Description

Named after Elston Hall, the Darwin family’s ancestral home, with its wyvern emblem featured on the label. Grapes were whole-cluster pressed, cold settled, and fermented in a mix of new and seasoned French oak, with some undergoing malolactic fermentation. The best parcels were aged on lees for 11 months, with 36% in new oak, to build depth and character.

Bright fruit, citrus and white nectarine, almond, fine spiced oak, a bit of bread dough. Juicy, white fruit and citrus, a bit of flint, a burst of flavour, some saline characters, a slight fresh pineapple thing, with a lively gently savoury/toasted hazelnut finish of excellent length. It’s a brighter, tighter, more restrained iteration of Elston, and I like that about it. It certainly has some get-up-and-go.

94 Points - Gary Walsh, The Wine Front