Helio Hawke's Bay Chardonnay

Emerge × Taut × Youthful
95/100 Cameron Douglas
🌿Sustainable Wine🌿
🌱Vegan Wine🌱
🐝Minimal🐝

Lime citrus leads in some fresh light and crunchy stone fruit aromatics.  Very precise on the palate with a liner acid line of limey citrus and white peach.  The refreshing high acid is perfectly paired with the fine grained pithy white tanning profile that gives this wine a very long finish, grip and texture.
 
Helio Chardonnay is grown on a north facing mid-slope, single vineyard on the Heretaunga plains. The infertile, free-draining, ancient riverbed soil is constructed of gravel and loess making for a divine struggle where the vines compete for nutrition and create the perfect fruit concentration. The average age of the clone 15 Chardonnay vines is quarter of a century. Like humans, vines really start to come of age at 25 years old, and just get better from there.
 
Chardonnay form Hawke's Bay
Vintage: 2022
Volume:750ml