MOUNT EDWARD CHENIN BLANC 2021

Winery notes (2021 Vintage)
"Chenin Blanc is a variety that is all about texture and acidity. A great food wine that delivers a huge length of flavours with a mineral backbone. Grapes from our Morrison Vineyard were whole bunch pressed directly to barrel, fermented naturally using the vineyard yeasts, all in older French oak.

A wine with refreshing acidity, delicate fruit flavours, some savoury complexity and a long backbone of taut freshness. The wine has a supple texture throughout that is derived from extended barrel ageing. Matured for just over 16 month on lees prior to bottling. Dry. Certified organic, Morrison vineyard, Pisa."

93/100 David Walker Bell, WineFolio.co.nz, January 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"From the Morrison Vineyard in Gibbston. Chenin Blanc as a variety produces wines that hold most of their interest in three things – texture, acidity and lees-influenced ‘bite’. At their best, like a good Chablis, they focus on a toothsome minerality and purity, without much influence from oak. A pale lemon-green colour in the glass. Perfumed with grapefruit, mandarin, white peach and just a hint of green herbs. Dry, precise and tight in the palate. Acidity is fresh and clean – mouthwatering and crisp. Some savoury notes, but also a little honeycomb to balance. Texture is quite plush, filling the palate and adding a roundness to that al dente juiciness at the start. The finish is long, pithy and persistent."