Grove Mill Chardonnay wine

Grove Mill Chardonnay is a White wine from Grove Mill Winery in Marlborough - South island, New Zealand. Grove Mill Chardonnay is a Dry gently oaked white Chardonnay wine.

10% of this wine was barrel fermented in French oak barriques and the remainder was fermented in stainless steel. Half of the wine was matured in oak barriques, and the balance in tank, on light yeast lees for twelve months.

Style of wine

Grove Mill are distinctive wines - rich, dry, full flavoured, complex, elegant and well balanced.
Their grapes are harvested from carefully selected Marlborough vineyards. The different soil and micro climatic conditions of each of these vineyards provides a range of unique characteristics. Individually and collectively these capture the delicious fruit intensity for which Marlborough is renowned. Grove Mill wines are excellent partners for fine cuisine.

Grove Mill Chardonnay tasting notes

Grove Mill's Chardonnays are made to showcase their Marlborough origins. Their aim is to focus on our naturally exuberant fruit flavours, allowing these to shine through the finished wine. They endeavour to support and build on this fruit with a finely balanced structure and additional complexity from winemaking.
Bouquet: Sweet fruit, oranges, hot buttered fruit bread toast, very nice oak influence.
Palate: Very rich, peach & ripe pineapple flavours, good length

Food matches

risotto, pasta, paella, chicken and scallops.

Wine awards

Grove Mill Marlborough Chardonnay 2001:
Gold Medal, International Wine Challenge, Gisborne 2002
Grove Mill Marlborough Chardonnay 2000:
Gold Medal, Royal Easter Show 2002
Grove Mill Marlborough Chardonnay 1999:
Gold Medal, Royal Easter Show 2000
Grove Mill Marlborough Chardonnay 1998:
Gold Medal, Liquorland Top 100, 1999
90 Points, Wine Spectator, February 2000

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