mineral-laced finish

intensely mineral flavors that are also rich and serious

This is also quite refreshing and while it would be infanticide to open one early

In the same fashion as the Clos des Chênes

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

Blank Canvas, Reed Chardonnay other_regions_australia mineral-laced finishFull 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