Dry River Chardonnay 2019
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Consistently one of New Zealand's finest and most age-worthy Chardonnays. Concentration, purity of flavour and added complexity of oak. A classic style of chardonnay: delicious, luscious. Only 250 cases produced, sold out every year, mainly to wine club members in New Zealand.
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Dry River Chardonnay 2019
Reviews
Bob Campbell, MW (The Real Review): 96/100. Intense, powerful chardonnay with grapefruit, oyster-shell, root ginger, brioche and baguette crust flavours. Richly-textured with power and purity. A seamless wine with a lingering finish and the potential to develop well with bottle age.
Cameron Douglas MS: 96/100. Complex and intriguing, mineral aromas are equal to fruit and oak. Enticing. Vibrant and alive on the palate with acidity that dances across the tongue. Flavours of white peach, pear, apple and quince then fruit spices leading into layers of a subtle oak foundation. Medium+ acidity, fresh, crisp, balanced and well made. Complex and long. Really fantastic example. 2030+.
Michael Cooper: 5 stars. Dry River Martinborough Chardonnay 2019 is fragrant and mouthfilling, with rich, searching flavours, gently seasoned with oak, and a distinctly cool-climate delicacy and vigour.
Tasting Note
Peach and pineapple are toned back by chalk and wet stone with a cream
and brioche note. Lemon curd and lime sorbet keep the aromatics fresh
and shy. The palate mimics the nose, with a mineral focus and a tight
acidity.
Aromas and flavours:
Additional information
Type: white wine
Varietal: Chardonnay
Alcohol: 13% vol
Residual sugar: <5 g/l
Bottle size: 0.75l
Notice: contains sulfite
Vineyards: Martinborough, New Zealand. From two vineyards: Dry River Estate (slightly heavier soils, little bit of clay runs through this vineyard), and Craighall (more stony and drier). Dry farmed.
Winemaking: The Dry River team aims to pick fairly early, for 12.5%-13% alcohol max. and the fruit is chilled overnight to 4C. The fruit is whole bunch pressed the following morning with a long 6 hr cycle to a max pressure of 0.8 Bar. The juice gets a light settling and is racked to French oak hogsheads (300l), 15% new. Wild ferment, wild MLF. The wine spends 12 months in oak (from vintage to vintage), then it is racked with its lees to tank for another 5 months. Bottled un-fined.
Cellaring potential: 2026
Closure: Cork
Produced and bottled: Dry River Wines Limited, P.O Box 72, Martinborough, South Wairarapa, New Zealand
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