Reserve Chardonnay 2022

Reserve Chardonnay 2022

Line and length define Heggies Vineyard Reserve Chardonnay. This wine shows a fine restraint in its youth that will gain more depth and complexity with bottle age.
Item No. HEGRCH226-BT
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Line and length define Heggies Vineyard Reserve Chardonnay. This wine shows a fine restraint in its youth that will gain more depth and complexity with bottle age.

The Details

Tasting Note Pale gold with slight green-gold tints. Complex aromas of yellow citrus, cut apple, stone fruit and fresh fig with notes of struck flint, brioche and a hint of spicy French oak. Flavours of fresh peach, citrus zest, green mango and roasted hazelnuts are underpinned by a fine creamy texture and flinty bottle complexity. The Heggies minerality which is such a feature of this vineyard leads the wine to an elegant, lingering finish.
Best Enjoyed With Enjoy with pan seared scallops with pea puree and crispy pancetta or potatoes au gratin.
Treatment Fermented and matured for 11 months in French oak barriques (28% new, balance in 1 year and older) and 42% of the blend was matured in ceramic wine eggs. Our Reserve Chardonnay contains grapes produced by Bernard clones 96, 95 and 76. All vines for this wine were planted in 1992.
Vintage 2022
Varietal Chardonnay
Region Eden Valley
Alcohol by Volume 12.5%
Winemaker Marc van Halderen
Cellaring Recommendations Ready to enjoy on release, this wine will continue to gain more depth & complexity with further cellaring.
Pack Size Options 1 , 6

Accolades

Excellent clarity and minerally cadence
Pale straw with just a peek of green, there's a detail and linear tension to this year's release that is very appealing. White peach, nectarine and citrus with hints of marzipan, nougat, crushed quartz, wildflowers, clotted cream and nicely judged, dreamy French oak all playing nicely together. Excellent clarity and minerally cadence with a crème fraîche sweep on the mid-palate, some nice grapefruit pith texture and a clean and decidedly moreish flow on the finish.
Dave Brookes

Attractive and floral
Pale yellow with green highlights. Attractive and floral, with nutty wild ferment and creamy oak nuances. Plenty of nougat and white stone fruit. Flecks of quartz and flint strike with yellow grapefruit citrus. Tighter than the nose suggests, fine linear structure with the well-judged creamy and toasty oak providing an easy swaddling cloth to the stone fruit and grapefruit flesh. Clean and bright finish with a good length.
Regan Drew

This is smart stuff
A bit of work has gone into this Heggies Vineyard Reserve Chardonnay delivering a clever, balanced drink. From vines planted in 1992, the fruit was hand picked in two stages five days apart and it was aged in a ceramic egg and French oak barriques for ten months on lees. A distinct aroma of struck match skips from the glass with scents of match sticks, nougat, lemon zest, Danish pastrie and almonds building a delightful presence. White fleshed nectarines, lemon juice, a squeeze of grapefruit and a little quartz minerality muse building depth and interest. Roasted cashews and biscotti keep things moving with a peach skin and lemon sherbet pinned to the close. Time on lees has developed the textural presence and that sheet of delight lingers longer than expected. It's quite an impressive drink that goes about its work without any glitz or glamour. Medium-term aging will build further complexity and depth. All up, this is smart stuff. Drink to five years+
Steve Leszczynski
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