Personalised Te Mata Elston Chardonnay 2023 13.5% 750ml

Tasting Notes

Appearance
In the glass, Elston Chardonnay 2023 exudes a radiant golden hue.

Aroma
Its aroma is a captivating blend of grapefruit, white peach, vanilla, and roasted nuts, interwoven with subtle charred nuances and flinty undertones.

Palate
The palate presents exquisite freshness and structure with lemon brle, peach, toasty brioche notes and refreshing citrus. Elston Chardonnay 2023 is graceful, impeccably balanced, and finishes long and satisfying, with a subtle saline quality.

Region notes
The superb quality of the 2023 vintage was immediately apparent in the fully ripe grapes that were hand-harvested from their separate, individual plots within Te Mata Estates vineyards between 22 February and 15 March 2023.

Cellaring potential
Elston 23 will continue to develop in bottle for six to eight years from harvest.

Range notes
Elston is named for Elston Hall in Nottinghamshire, the ancestral home of Charles Darwins family. Darwins theory of natural selection forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory, the foundation of biology. The wyvern symbol of Elston Hall appears on the label.

Vinification
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 fines lots were selected for further maturation, spending a total of 11 months in barrel with 36% being new oak.

Grape variety
Chardonnay

PH
3.28

Acidity
7.1 g/L