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HUNTER’S OFFSHOOT CHARDONNAY 2020

Product Code: 3845
Country: New Zealand
Region: Marlborough
Sub Region: Wairau Valley
Style: White
Variety: Chardonnay
Producer: Hunter's Wines

Closure: Screw Cap
Unit: Each
Volume: 750ml
Alcohol: 13.2%
Grape: 100% Chardonnay

Original price was: $41.99.Current price is: $36.99.

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Gold Medal – Marlborough Wine Show 2022

Winery notes (2020 Vintage)
"This is our fourth year producing our Offshoot Chardonnay. The wine is ever growing in popularity and quality as James and Inus refine their technique. This new Offshoot range allows us to experiment with new winemaking techniques and presentation.

Intense, stone fruit nose with a touch of matchstick edginess. The palate is ripe, showing peach and apricot fruit notes. This is a complex, full bodied Chardonnay with plenty of texture and character.

Chardonnay from 30 year-old vines off our Home Block on Rapaura Road were used. Handpicked fruit was gently pressed, 100% free-run juice immediately filled to large oak casks for a high solid, indigenous fermentation. Following fermentation, 100% went through natural malolactic fermentation. The wine was aged in barrel on lees for 12 months and a further 3 months in tank before being bottled. The oak regime consisted of 100% French oak, 30% of which were new.

The 2020 growing season was one to remember for the amazing weather conditions in Marlborough. During Summer and Autumn, we had warm and dry conditions throughout, allowing for clean fruit and an early start to the vintage. These conditions resulted in grapes that was picked with good natural acidity relative to their sugar and flavour ripeness.2020 will prove to be an exceptional vintage."

Rated Outstanding & 95/100 Cameron Douglas MS, September 2022 (2020 Vintage)
"A bouquet of place, time and complexity with a modern twist. Aromas and flavours of gun-flint and grapefruit, chalk and lemon, apple and white flowers. There’s a leesy-barrel spice complexity adding texture and breadth of flavour on the palate. Plenty of weight and mouthfeel this wine is delicious and new and very stylish. Best drinking on is own or some freshly steamed shellfish or hāngī food."

5 Stars Michael Cooper (2020 Vintage)
"The elegant, very finely balanced 2020 vintage was estate-grown at Rapaura and hand-harvested from 30 year-old vines. It was fermented with indigenous yeasts in large (900-litre) French oak barrels (35 per cent new), on the basis that 'big barrels show the fruit', and wood-aged for a year. Bright yellow/green, it is a complex, full-bodied wine, with concentrated, ripe, peachy, citrusy flavours, gently seasoned with oak, fresh acidity and a savoury, lingering finish. Best drinking 2024+."

4 Stars Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review (2020 Vintage)
"From 30 year-old Mendoza clone Chardonnay from the Home Block next to the winery. Fermented and matured in 900 litre French barrels. Richer and weightier than the regular Chardonnay with white peach, nectarine, toast and hazelnut flavours. Best drinking 2022 – 2026."

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If for any reason you are not entirely happy with your order or you suspect that it may be affected by a quality issue, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will remedy the problem straight away. Contact us on (03) 3655134.

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Founded in 1987, Jane Hunter CNZM, O.B.E is still the owner, viticulturist, and managing director of family owned Hunter’s Wines.

This Marlborough winery located close to the town of Blenheim is best known for there world famous Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay wines.

Hunter's Wines boosts over 200 gold medals from both national and international competition.

Hunter’s Wines is continually challenging itself, introducing new varietals, wine-making techniques, and environmental practices to ensure its wine continue to delight its patrons

This is a great winery to visit with the Cellar Door located in the original farmhouse on their Rapaura Road Winery, award winning native gardens to explore, and a resident artist.