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Micro Cuvée Chardonnay 2018
Micro Cuvée Chardonnay 2018

Micro Cuvée Chardonnay 2018

$69.65
93 Points, Anthony Gismondi
92 Points, Wine Align's Guide to Canada's Best 2020

"Micro Cuvée is serious stuff, and you sense that from the first taste of, appropriately, Meyer Lemon combined with green apple, mineral, salty flavours that persist through the length and width of the wine. The acidity hums throughout, and at 13.5 percent, so too does Okanagan Falls... One of the best in the valley and consistently so in the last three or four years." ~ Anthony Gismondi, Tasted May 2020

Specifications

  • Alcohol 13.5%
  • Acidity 7.4 g/L
  • Aging 8-10 years
  • Appellation Naramata
  • Bottling Date September 1st, 2019
  • Country Canada
  • Harvest Date October 15th, 2018
  • ph 3.54
  • Region Okanagan Valley
  • Type White
  • Varietal Chardonnay
  • Vineyard Old Main Road Vineyard
  • Vintage 2018
  • Winemaker Chris Carson

  • Notes

    Winemaker Notes

    At the winery the fruit was fed directly into the press with an ensuing long gentle pressing employed. Only the finest, purest juice from the early stages of the pressing was used for this wine with the more astringent so called “hard press” kept separate. A long, cool fermentation began in stainless steel vessels where it remained for most of the ferment. The must was then transferred to 100% French oak (33% new). The wine was left “sur lees” for 11 months without battonage. A natural malolactic fermentation occurred in late spring. For the Micro Cuvée we individually taste and select barrels that we feel stand out; one new French oak puncheon from the Tronçais forest and two one-year-old puncheons from the Vosges and Allier forests were selected. In keeping with our philosophy to maintain, as much as possible, a hands-off approach in the cellar to allow the true expression of terroir, this wine is unfined and unfiltered. 

    Vineyard Notes

    Our family owned “Old Main Road Vineyard” is located on a terrace on the famed Naramata Bench, BC and was originally planted in 1996 with 100% Chardonnay vines. The vineyard has a gentle northerly aspect with the soil comprised of alluvial deposits making up a silt loam overlaying a clay loam.  The northerly aspects of the vineyard cause the vines to slowly ripen the fruit producing a greater spectrum of flavor while still retaining a good level of acidity and minerality. Although we are not certified organic, we practice organic/sustainable farming principles.

    Production Notes

    110 cases produced. 

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