Viticulture Vineyard: Soils: Harvest Date: Brix at Harvest: Clones:

Olssen's Garden Vineyard Lochar 22 May, 2002 36 Mendoza

Winemaking Residual Sugar: pH: T.A: Alc: Closure: Cellaring

175 g/L 3.27 8.7 g/L 9.5% Screwcap 5 to 10 years

Winemakers notes Very ripe Chardonnay grapes were hand picked from cordon cut vines and pumped into our bag press and left for skin contact of 12 hours before pressing. The juice was left to cold settle for four days then racked, lees filtered and inoculated with yeast. The very sweet juice was tank fermented slowly at 15 degrees C. The wine was lightly fined, cold and protein stabilised prior to sterile filtration and bottling in September 2002.

Wine description Late harvest Chardonnay, first produced in 2002. The wine is light gold in colour and has a most amazing nose, full of stone fruit and liquid raisins. Another low volume speciality, this wine is superb already but will substantially reward those who can keep it. Awards 2002 Bronze medal Air New Zealand Wine Awards 4 Stars, WineState Magazine 2004