2020 Astrolabe Wrekin Chardonnay

"Aromas and flavours of citrus and peach, baked apple and tangerine, a vanilla custard creamy quality and core of pure fruit with floral overtones. There’s a mineral quality than emerges as the wine opens up in glass along with a hint of white smoke from the oak. On the palate - a dry wine with a youthful acid line, flavours that mirror the bouquet and a fine oak and leesy quality. Youthful still so needs some cellar time with best drinking from late 2023 through 2030."

"From an organic vineyard in the clay-rich Southern Valleys. Rich, textural chardonnay with white peach, vanilla, ginger, citrus and sizzled butter flavours. A tasty, complex wine that should develop well with bottle age."

“The very harmonious, youthful 2019 vintage was grown in the Wrekin Vineyard, in the Southern Valleys. Hand-harvested and fermented and matured for 10 months in French oak puncheons, it is bright, light lemon/green, with fresh, generous, citrusy, peachy flavours, biscuity notes adding complexity, and a creamy-textured, long finish. Showing obvious potential, it should be at its best 2022+.”