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Product details
Description
Founded by the famous cinematographer Michael Seresin, Seresin Estate are a leading New Zealand winery, with an old-world approach to winemaking. They farm their vineyards using 100% organic and bio-dynamic practices, producing complex and balanced wines that age gracefully.
This Chardonnay has aromas of citrus, toasted almond and apple. The palate is focused and bright, with grapefruit, nectarine and peach. The acidity is firm and linear, giving backbone to the orchard-fruit core and carrying through to a long fragrant finish.
Rated 91/100 by Robert Parker and Bob Campbell.Variety Description
Chardonnay
Australian Chardonnay is a seductive variety that comes in all shapes and sizes. From the toasty and voluptuous to the lean, flinty and minerally. Chardonnay offer wines of deep flavour and power, often crafting fuller-figured The cooler-climate wines from the Yarra Valley, Tasmania and the like are more focused and linear, building complexity around a backbone of pristine acidity. Whatever your preference, there is an Australian Chardonnay to enchant all comers
Country Description
New Zealand
New Zealand wine is largely produced in ten major wine growing regions spanning from north to south Northland, Auckland, Waikato/Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough, Canterbury/Waipara and Central Otago. New Zealand red wines are typically made from a blend of varietals (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and much less often Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec), or Pinot noir. In white wines Chardonnay and Sauvignon blanc predominate in plantings and production. New Zealand is home to what many wine critics consider the world’s best Sauvignon blanc
Region Description
Marlborough
Marlborough is one of the regions of New Zealand, located in the northeast on the South Island. Marlborough can lay claim to starting the modern New Zealand wine industry. Here in the late 1970s, Marlborough produced Sauvignon blanc, among other varieties, which led to confidence that New Zealand could produce interesting wine. Today, the Marlborough wine region represents 62% of total vineyard area in the country. The king varietal here is Sauvignon blanc, closely followed by Pinot noir and Chardonnay. Sauvignon blanc from Marlborough offer unique aromas and flavors, which earns them much praise from wine lovers around the world
