2021 Estate Chardonnay

For complexity and texture, we treaded roughly one third of the fruit, leaving it in bins for three hours of skin contact before pressing. To accentuate the signature fruit and natural nuttiness of our Estate grapes, we also fermented this wine with 100% indigenous yeast. Fermentation and aging occurred in French oak barrels with 6% new oak as well as large format French oak casks. The wine was on fine fermentation lees for 9 months and underwent 85% indigenous malolactic fermentation.