2014 | Gantenbein Wine | Chardonnay

The 2014 Chardonnay shows an intense golden-yellow color with a lime-greenish shimmer. On the nose, this is a pure, refined and slightly buttery as well as flinty Chardonnay with elegant intensity and notes of green asparagus, stewed chicory and a hint of caramel. On the palate, this is a generous, textural and tight, tense and lush as well as piquant Chardonnay with fine tannins and a long, intense and saline, quite powerful and complex finish with firm tannins.

Producer Information

Gantenbein Wine is situated on the outskirts of the predominantly wine-growing village of Fläsch in Graubunden, Switzerland. The winery has stood here since Martha and Daniel Gantenbein took over the running of the estate from Martha’s family in 1981. The winery began producing local wine the following year and today the vineyards are planted with five hectares (12 acres) of Pinot Noir, one hectare (2.5 acres) of Chardonnay and 0.2 hectares (0.5 acres) of Riesling. Since establishing the winery in 1982, the Gantenbeins have strived to improve their winemaking processes and in 1991, for example, began experimenting with German oak barrels. The experiment paid off and the wine was well received both nationally and internationally. The next idea was to ferment a portion of the grape harvest in barriques – a process that has now been continually implemented since 1993. Two years on from this, and in another departure from their contemporaries, the Gantenbeins decided to produce wine without filtration. The winery’s unique architecture is as a result of a collaboration between architects Valentin Bearth, Andrea Deplazes and Daniel Ladner, who came up with the design in 2008. The exterior architecture of the building is designed to represent a basket of grapes, with the brickwork arranged in such a way as to allow light to permeate through the walls, thereby creating a luminous interior space with a stable temperature. The brick walls were digitally designed and the pilot walls built in research facilities at the Technical University in Zurich (ETH). The building is split to include a shipping hall in the basement, a cuverie on ground level and a restaurant above.

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