Color: Beautiful pale gold.
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Pairings: Excellent with pork, vegetables, white meats, poultry, and fish.Sourced from The (certified organic) Wrekin Vineyard, the Deep Down Marlborough Chardonnay 2023 is wild fermented, and spends 9 months in oak. This feels special from the first whiff – there’s a kitchen sink riot there, with butter, passionfruit, waxy marzipan funk, some golden whipped butter. It doesn’t smell wild or different, but instead evocative, involving and multi-faceted. The palate is just as riotous, even though it finishes crisply. It’s almost too intense, golden, and rich in its stonefruity/lightly floral expression and golden nutty punch. There’s just a bit of grungy leesy funk on the back end to remind you we’re not in some straight-laced world, but it just helps punch the flavours on through. Fuck Burgundy, this is the Chardonnay real deal. I might even be underrating it.
92 pts - Ken Gargett (Wine Pilot)Deep straw colour, there are lovely rich and ripe notes on the nose, with hints of peaches, mandarins, stone fruits, gentle cashews and orange blossoms. A wine of balance and intensity with everything in place to flourish, including an appealing creamy texture. There is also crunchy acidity which runs right through to a lingering finish. This will continue to provide pleasure for at least the next five to seven years.
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