Coopers Creek Hawkes Bay Swamp Reserve Chardonnay 2019
The 2019 Coopers Creek Hawkes Bay Swamp Reserve Chardonnay exhibits ripe lemon and grapefruit characters. Pale in the glass as a young wine but will develop pale gold tints with time in the bottle.
Wine Structure
There are FIVE dimensions for tasting wine:
- Sweetness: The amount of sugar that remains in the wine after fermentation.
- Body: How light or heavy a wine feels in your mouth.
- Acidity: The tangy and crisp flavours that makes a wine taste fresh.
- Tannins: The bitter flavours in wine that create a drying sensation in the mouth.
- Flavour Notes: The subtle tastes and smells that are unique to each wine. Learn More
This wine's structure
Wine Structure
There are FIVE dimensions for tasting wine:
- Sweetness: The amount of sugar that remains in the wine after fermentation.
- Body: How light or heavy a wine feels in your mouth.
- Acidity: The tangy and crisp flavours that makes a wine taste fresh.
- Tannins: The bitter flavours in wine that create a drying sensation in the mouth.
- Flavour Notes: The subtle tastes and smells that are unique to each wine. Learn More
More details for this wine
| Variety | Chardonnay |
|---|---|
| Vintage | 2019 |
| Size | 750ml |
| Alcohol | 13.0% |
| Residual Sugar | 2.0g/L |
| Acid | 6.8g/L |
| Cellar | This wine drinks beautifully after about 12 to 18 months, and then cellar out to around five years in the correct environment. |
| Food Pairing | Full flavoured chardonnays are great food wines, especially richly flavoured meat dishes such as lamb, pork and duck, and seafood - crayfish, salmon and trout. Accompanying sauces could include citrus, apple, nuts, mushrooms and aromatic herbs. |
| Notes | Winemakers Notes The vintage conditions in 2019 in Hawkes Bay were excellent. As usual only the best, hand harvested fruit from our Middle Road Chardonnay block goes into our Swamp Reserve Chardonnay, so we made a few very careful passes through the best part of the vineyard. The parcels were kept as separate batches right up until assemblage in February. We made a further selection before bottling and ultimately used about 75% of what we had harvested. The balance went into our Limeworks Chardonnay. Ultimately, this wine is 100% barrel fermented, close to 100% MLF and used 33% new French oak barrels.Tasting Notes Colour: Pale in the glass as a young wine, but will develop pale gold tints with time in the bottle. Bouquet: Year after year the fruit from this vineyard exhibits ripe lemon and grapefruit characters. This is interwoven with subtle oak and lees and MLF derived creaminess. Palate: Harmony and balance have become two of the hallmarks of our Swamp Reserve style. This wine has fineness and structure, yet is also incredibly complex and long. |
Wine Structure
There are FIVE dimensions for tasting wine:
- Sweetness: The amount of sugar that remains in the wine after fermentation.
- Body: How light or heavy a wine feels in your mouth.
- Acidity: The tangy and crisp flavours that makes a wine taste fresh.
- Tannins: The bitter flavours in wine that create a drying sensation in the mouth.
- Flavour Notes: The subtle tastes and smells that are unique to each wine. Learn More
This wine's structure
Wine Structure
There are FIVE dimensions for tasting wine:
- Sweetness: The amount of sugar that remains in the wine after fermentation.
- Body: How light or heavy a wine feels in your mouth.
- Acidity: The tangy and crisp flavours that makes a wine taste fresh.
- Tannins: The bitter flavours in wine that create a drying sensation in the mouth.
- Flavour Notes: The subtle tastes and smells that are unique to each wine. Learn More
More details for this wine
| Variety | Chardonnay |
|---|---|
| Vintage | 2019 |
| Size | 750ml |
| Alcohol | 13.0% |
| Residual Sugar | 2.0g/L |
| Acid | 6.8g/L |
| Cellar | This wine drinks beautifully after about 12 to 18 months, and then cellar out to around five years in the correct environment. |
| Food Pairing | Full flavoured chardonnays are great food wines, especially richly flavoured meat dishes such as lamb, pork and duck, and seafood - crayfish, salmon and trout. Accompanying sauces could include citrus, apple, nuts, mushrooms and aromatic herbs. |
| Notes | Winemakers Notes The vintage conditions in 2019 in Hawkes Bay were excellent. As usual only the best, hand harvested fruit from our Middle Road Chardonnay block goes into our Swamp Reserve Chardonnay, so we made a few very careful passes through the best part of the vineyard. The parcels were kept as separate batches right up until assemblage in February. We made a further selection before bottling and ultimately used about 75% of what we had harvested. The balance went into our Limeworks Chardonnay. Ultimately, this wine is 100% barrel fermented, close to 100% MLF and used 33% new French oak barrels.Tasting Notes Colour: Pale in the glass as a young wine, but will develop pale gold tints with time in the bottle. Bouquet: Year after year the fruit from this vineyard exhibits ripe lemon and grapefruit characters. This is interwoven with subtle oak and lees and MLF derived creaminess. Palate: Harmony and balance have become two of the hallmarks of our Swamp Reserve style. This wine has fineness and structure, yet is also incredibly complex and long. |
