CHURCH ROAD 1 SINGLE VINEYARD CHARDONNAY 2019 750ML

Church Road 1 is a range of single vineyard wines that showcase the terroir of our best vineyards. Planted on the eastern banks of the Tuki Tuki River by Tom McDonald in the 1960s, our Tuki Tuki Vineyard’s dense clay soils and cooling sea breezes make it ideally suited to producing Chardonnay, the sole variety grown here in naturally modest yields of fragrant fruit with a natural acidity and a minerality not felt as keenly in grapes grown at other sites.

The Tuki Tuki Vineyard has typically delivered a vibrant fruit spectrum with an amalgam of citrus and citrus blossom, acacia flower and a richer undertone of ripe peach. Wild fermentation and lees aging in-barrel has overlaid elements of roasted nuts and toasted brioche.