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2022 Field of Fire Chardonnay

Regular price $125.00
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Field of Fire is one of our rare Botanical Collection wines crafted from individual blocks on our estate vineyards and named after the dominant wild botanical found in 11 the pasture. It is made from a 0.6ha. block of Chardonnay grown on the south-east facing, limestone-clay slopes at our Waikari farm, and fermented and cellared with the natural microbes of this biodynamically farmed property. 

North Canterbury

Crushed and soaked for 4 hours prior to pressing. Wild ferment, in aged French oak barrels. 12 months on lees in barrel, then aged on light lees for 5 months in stainless steel prior to bottling unfined and unfiltered in September 2023.

Planted between 2000-2002 at 11,111 vines/ha and a second planting in 2018, farmed biodynamically from inception. This unique, south-east facing site has varied soils, graduating from top to bottom on the slope, through primarily shallow (10-15cm) glauconitic clays over well drained limestone.
Harvest date: 29 April 2022.

Green lemon hue. Complex nose of minerals, flint, lemons and limes. Taught yet rich and concentrated, flavours reminiscent of lime and samphire. Fine and compact phenolics frame the wine and drive the long, moreish, mineral finish.

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