Goose Bay Tasting Notes
Goose Bay Chardonnay
~ Limited Release ~
A full bodied, crisp Chardonnay that will surprise many Kosher wine drinkers with it's deep flavours. Excellent weight and complexity that goes with many types of food.
- Vintage Conditions:
- The early growing season was dry and warm with a prolonged, dry harvest. These conditions and slow ripening produced good acid balance with mouth filling flavours. Clone: Cl. 15 and Mendoza.
- Harvest Date:
- Late April 2006.
- Vinification:
- The grapes are crushed and once pressed the juice is allowed to settle for two days. The juice is then flash pasturized and placed in a tank containing French and American oak. It is fermented very cool (11 C) which takes about 4-6 weeks to complete. Racked off it's rough lee's it is allowed to age for a further nine months. This wine did not go through any malalactic ferment.
- Bottling Date:
- January 2007.
- Alcohol:
- 13.2%
- pH:
- 3.43
- Acid:
- 6.4 gr./L
- Residual Sugar:
- 3.1 gr./L
- Colour:
- Brilliant Lemon yellow.
- Bouquet:
- Tropical fruit with hints of mealiness, fine oak and vanilla,
- Palate:
- A rich, big wine with Tropical fruit flavours of citrus, pineapple as well as green apples. Fine oak and a touch of vanilla.
- Packaging:
- 12 x 750ml. Diam cork.