2021 Te Mata, Elston Chardonnay, 6x750ml
Te Mata’s flagship chardonnay. Whole-bunch pressed, fermented in French oak and aged for a further 11 months in barrel, with only partial malolactic fermentation. Complex, long and lively.
Availability: 4 weeks
Case size: 6 / Bottle size: 750ml
Duty Status
From £114.00
Critics Score: 96
Publication: Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Drinking Dates: 2023-2033
Light, bright yellow hue with a complex bouquet of sneaky hints of buttered toast, roasted hazelnuts and underlying citrus fruits, lemon and grapefruit. Creamy lees and shortbread-like malo characters. There is excellent intensity of flavour powered along by great acidity that really drives the wine and prevents it being heavy. Concentration and drive in spadefuls. A generous, mouth-filling chardonnay with great amplitude and incredible length. Very satisfying to sip. No hurry to drink it—and time will bring increased complexity
ORIGIN
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.
VINEYARDS
The superb quality of the 2019 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 18 and 22 March 2019.
WINEMAKING
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 finest
lots were selected for further maturation, spending a total of 10 months in barrel.
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.
VINEYARDS
The superb quality of the 2019 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 18 and 22 March 2019.
WINEMAKING
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 finest
lots were selected for further maturation, spending a total of 10 months in barrel.
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