Babich Hawke's Bay Chardonnay 2009
Specially selected from our two estate-owned Hawke’s Bay vineyards, this un-oaked Chardonnay offers a creamy palate with melon and peach flavours (without the intrusion of oak) and a clean, dry finish.
Winemaker Notes
Region:
Hawke’s Bay
Recommended Food:
It would sit happily next to a bowl of fettuccine pasta in a sauce based around cream and sage, or partner it with Chinese-style stir-fried chicken in a lemon-flavoured sauce.
Recommended Cellaring:
0-4 years
Production Notes:
Parcels of premium fruit where pressed to stainless steel tanks and cool fermented. Several yeast strains where employed to express differing characters within the wine. The separate parcels where combined and lightly fined.
Technical Notes:
Alcohol: 13.5%
TA: 6.5g/l
pH: 3.47
Residual Sugar: 3.1g/l
Tasting Notes:
Enticing straw yellow colour. Aromas of ripe tinned pineapple, sweet apricots and peach are abundant in the glass. Packed with fruit, predominantly apples and peaches. Lovely full weight great body and viscosity. Rewarding and lingering citrus finish. This is an enjoyable and easy drinking wine.
Wine Writer Reviews
"Founded in 1916, Babich has become one of the country's most prominent wineries. This stainless-steel Chardonnay hails from Hawkes Bay, the North Island area known foremost for its Bordeaux-style reds but holding Chardonnay as a significant side effort. The wine shows its briny edge and finds a great balance. Ripe apple, lean lime zest, baby's breath and apricot provide a complex take that's a snapshot of Hawkes Bay's versatility."
-San Francisco Chronicle, Jon Bonné, May, 2011
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