2022 | Felton Road | Block 2 Chardonnay

White blossom and green melon are contrasted amongst notes of mineral and crushed sea shells. This delightfully complex nose is repeated on the palate which is pleasingly absent of oak and finishes with saline elements and salivating acidity.

Producer Information

Felton Road is a wine estate in the Central Otago sub-region of Bannockburn. It is one of New Zealand's best known and most highly respected producers, and its Pinot Noir wines are considered some of the best expressions of that variety in the New World. Felton Road also produces several wines from Riesling and Chardonnay. The estate is composed of four vineyards on warm, north-facing slopes in Bannockburn: the original Elms Vineyard, the MacMuir vineyard the Calvert and the Cornish vineyard. Elms was first planted in 1992 and is where the 'Block' series wines come from. Felton Road harvests grapes by hand, and follows the minimal intervention ethos in the winery, with gravity-fed systems, wild yeasts and no fining or filtering of the red wines prior to bottling. The Pinot Noir wines are all made the same way: around a quarter of the fruit is kept as whole bunches, and there is a 5-10 day cold soak before a wild ferment. After fermentation, the Bannockburn, Cornish Point and Block 3 Pinot Noir mature for 13 to 14 months in barrel, with the Calvert and Block 5 spending 16 to 17 months. The Block 1 Riesling, Felton Road's top white wine, is grown on heavier soils and shows a rounder texture with tropical passionfruit flavors.

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