Elston Chardonnay 2024

Te Mata Estate, produktside (hentet 19. okt. 2026): 2024 Te Mata Elston Chardonnay – område: Hawke's Bay; druer: Chardonnay; alkohol 14%; 11 måneder på fad, 33% nye franske fade. Producentens noter (engelsk): The superb quality of the 2024 vintage was immediately apparent in the fully ripe grapes that were hand harvested from their separate, individual plots within Te Mata Estate’s vineyards between 26 February and 20 March 2024. Each parcel was gently whole-cluster pressed, cold settled and racked to new and seasoned French oak barrels for fermentation. The resulting wines remained in contact with their yeast lees, with a number going through malolactic fermentation. The finest lots were selected for further maturation, spending a total of 11 months in barrel with 33% being new oak. Elston is named for Elston Hall in Nottinghamshire, the ancestral home of Charles Darwin’s family. Darwin’s ‘theory of natural selection’ forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory, the foundation of biology. The Chambers family, who founded Te Mata vineyards, where educated at Elston Hall and carried the importance of education with them, establishing the first schools in Hawke's Bay. The wyvern symbol from above the door of Elston Hall appears on the label.