Mahi Marlborough Chardonnay 2022
19,99 € -20% RRP 24,99 €
26,65 € pro Liter
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delivery time ca. 2-4 Werktage
Product.Nr. 2179
This wine is a complex, textural wine that exhibits the slight creaminess on the mid-palate that is the key characteristic of Chardonnay. The structure still retains acidity giving length and freshness.
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Mahi Marlborough Chardonnay 2022
Tasting Note
This wine is a complex, textural wine that exhibits the slight creaminess on the mid-palate. Lovely aromas of peach, quince, apple, vanilla and stone. The structure still retains acidity giving length and freshness. Silky and fine on the finish.
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Additional information
Type: White wine
Grape varial: Chardonnay
Alcohol: 13.5% vol
Food match: creamy chicken casserole or rich seafood chowder.
Vineyard: Marlborough, New Zealand. This fruit comes from three vineyards; the Taylor Vineyard which is in the Rapaura area and the Twin Valleys vineyard, and a very small amount from the Mahi home block in front of the winery.
Vintage: Mahi's 22nd vintage was again distinctive and again it was early and some serious rainfall at veraison meant that the berries were bigger this year, so the crops were slightly higher. Starting on March the 10th the team harvested quickly and finished the earliest ever. It was not a hot vintage, so the flavours were retained, but Brian felt the grapes were fragile so picked quickly as things ripened. Mahi saw early on that it was a bigger year and, with cooler easterlies winds predominating, they decided to drop some bunches early, up to 18 bunches a vine in one parcel! This helped as the vines managed to get the remaining bunches ripe and teh team was happy with the health of the fruit. April saved them also as it only had 19% of normal rainfall and they nearly had the last month of no rain, which was so good. Slightly lower sugars this year means the wine is perhaps more elegant and refined but it still shows the texture winemaker Brian Bicknell and his team are looking for.
Winemaking: The aim for this Chardonnay is to retain a fresh structure with a complex palate. Mahi therefore minimise the malolactic fermentation so that it is really the vineyards, fruit, wild-ferment and barrel characters that make up the complex nose and palate. All of the vines were intensively hand-tended and the grapes hand-picked and then taken to the winery for whole-cluster pressing. The resulting juice went straight to French oak barrels and fermented with indigenous yeast from the fruit. After fermentation the wine sat on yeast lees for eleven months prior to blending and bottling.
Residual sugar: <1 g/l
Bottle size: 0.75l
Notice: contains sulphites
Cellaring potential: 2028+
Closure: Screwcap
Produced and bottled by: Mahi Wines Ltd., 9 Terrace Rd, PO Box 33, Renwick, Marlborough, New Zealand
Imported and distributed by: vinabonus GmbH, Simmedenweg 40, 34134 Kassel, Germany
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