Escarpment Estate Chardonnay is 100% Martinborough fruit grown from what can be considered an ideal season - a small yet exceptional vintage, an accurate reflection of the district’s unique terroir.

The summer allowed a normal crop load to ripen slowly, producing powerful opulent fruit flavours and a flinty mineral backbone which combine beautifully with barrel fermentation, to create Burgundian inspired Chardonnay.

Warm days and cool nights through the later growing season allowed for full ripeness, producing an opulent Chardonnay with a flinty mineral backbone. Fermentation in French oak puncheons (20% new) enhances its textural mouthfeel. Malolactic fermentation was bypassed to maintain a delectably crisp natural acidity. After 11 months in oak it saw a further 4 months in stainless steel prior to bottling.

Complex citrus and stone fruit notes of grapefruit and nectarine balanced by tertiary aromas of lifted spiced ginger and hazelnut, with a gunflint minerality.

The palate shows great cleansing acidity and a warm mouthfeel yet retaining and edgy focus of line and length.

A perfect match to shellfish and seafood entrées, and roasted poultry dishes.

Escarpment Martinborough Chardonnay will age gracefully over the next few years, but is immediately accessible as a young wine.

Technical Details:

Alc: 12.9%
Acid: 7.0g/l
pH: 3.24
Residual sugar: <1g/l
Total dry extract: 23.1g/l