Aroma
Its aroma is a
captivating blend of grapefruit, white peach, vanilla, and roasted nuts, interwoven with
subtle charred nuances and flinty undertones.
Appearance
In the glass, Elston Chardonnay 2023 exudes a radiant golden hue.
Palate
The palate presents exquisite freshness
and structure with lemon brûlée, peach, toasty brioche notes and refreshing citrus.
Elston Chardonnay 2023 is graceful, impeccably balanced, and finishes long and
satisfying, with a subtle saline quality.
Vinification
Each parcel was gently whole-cluster pressed, cold settled and racked to new and
seasoned French oak barrels for fermentation. The resulting wines remained in contact
with their yeast lees, with a number going through malolactic fermentation. The fines
lots were selected for further maturation, spending a total of 11 months in barrel with
36% being new oak.
Cellaring Potential
Elston ’23 will continue to develop in bottle for six to eight years from harvest.
Range Notes
Elston is named for Elston Hall in Nottinghamshire, the ancestral home of Charles
Darwin’s family. Darwin’s ‘theory of natural selection’ forms the basis of modern
evolutionary theory, the foundation of biology. The wyvern symbol of Elston Hall
appears on the label.
Region Notes
The superb quality of the 2023 vintage was immediately apparent in the fully ripe
grapes that were hand-harvested from their separate, individual plots within Te Mata
Estate’s vineyards between 22 February and 15 March 2023.
