Elephant Hill Chardonnay 750ml

Elephant Hill Hawkes Bay Chardonnay 20192020 750ml This wine is a balanced wellstructured Chardonnay showing great fruit concentration with lovely texture and a lingering finish The wine is made with handharvested grapes from the winemakers coastal Te Awanga vineyard The bunches were wholebunch pressed to 228L oak barriques 25 new It is a wild yeast fermented Chardonnay which purposely did not go through malolactic fermentation and remained in barrel on lees for 11 months Established in 2003 Elephant Hill located within a stones throw of the Pacific Ocean on the idyllic Te Awanga coast of Hawkes Bay on New Zealands North Island The winemaking at Elephant Hill is driven by tradition while not losing sight of what innovation can bring to the blend Their aim is to make wines that are balanced elegant and a true expression of the vineyards they come from Alc 137