This is also quite spicy if perhaps not quite as elegant as that of the Brûlées though there is just as much depth

In the same fashion as the Clos des Chênes

Lovely wine to drink now or hold

and just about flawless balance on the palate

Blank Canvas, Reed Chardonnay other_regions_australia This is also quite spicyFull bottle 1,421 g. From the Waihopai Valley. Clone 95. The Chardonnay was whole bunch pressed with only the very cloudy free run juice going into new (40%) and used French oak puncheons (500 litre). No sulphur was added so a spontaneous fermentation started, which didn't wholly finish until the following January. It underwent natural malolactic conversion in the spring. No lees stirring. Bottled without filtration and with a very low total SO2 of 36