Colere Holon Chardonnay 2020

Colere Holon Chardonnay 2020

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Skin fermented chardonnay… 20% whole bunch fermentation on skins for ten days, pressed to barrel. 60% de-stemmed skin fermentation, on skins for ten months in an older oak puncheon. 20% whole bunch pressed juice stainless steel fermentation.

After blending of these components, the wine was left on fine yeast lees in 60% older oak (puncheon) and 40% stainless steel for three months before racking once more and leaving to stabilize (full MLF) and naturally settle for a further six months in stainless steel, bottled without fining or filtration after 18 months, 50mg/ total sulphites, vegan friendly.

"Aromas of grapefruit and French oak, vanilla and cashew nut then baked apple and kitchen spices. Complex and youthful. Distinctive palate textures and flavours with a mix of lees and wild ferment characters with white flowers and a flinty quality then flavours of stone fruits, apple and citrus. Perfectly weighted, taut and youthful with a light saline quality, medium+ acidity and fine tannin" Excellent - Cam Douglas MS

“Developed straw hue with a cloudy haze. The nose is compelling and complex with aromas of ripe apricot, Campari, mango skin and smoky open fire embers. The palate is tasty and flavoursome with flavours of apricot and dried apple skin with a crunchy, chalky texture and a firm, phenolic finish.” Excellent - NZ Wine Rater (Steve Bennett, Lynnette Hudson)

“Delicious, apple skin, Mirabelle, lovely weight and presence in the mouth, great length, plenty of acid drive, freshness and vivacity, actually the back end is the triumph, finishes beautifully, tails off slowly and gently, texture is mouth coating, nicely viscous, green shades are masterful” Excellent – John Saker

 

Ashmore vineyard

Ashmore Vineyard (Dog Point) is one of the oldest privately established vineyards in Marlborough with first plantings in the late 1970s. The property is planted to chardonnay, pinot noir and sauvignon blanc,  grown under certified Biogro organic farming.

The soils have been laid down within the last 14,000 years carved and eroded by glaciers in the high country and carried down to the coast by melt-water rivers. Ashmore Vineyard is located at the confluence of the smaller Brancott and Omaka valleys, a part of the sub-region of Marlborough known as the Southern Valleys.

 
 

ABOUT THE PRODUCER:

Colere (‘cultivate and worship land and spirit') is a micro-negotiant wine project seeking out small unique parcels of the highest quality certified organic/biodynamic grapes, from some of New Zealand’s leading wine growing sites and farmers.

Fermentation and experimentation, like fire and simple tools, are some the most basic transformative processes that we can use in life that for the basis of human culture. This culture begins at the farm and binds a people to its land and to its artisans. This requires first and foremost that we enter into an alchemical relationship with bacteria and fungi, and that we bring to our tables food and wine prepared by the magicians, not machines.

With this in mind the wines of Colere are very much cultivated, no less than plants and animals are cultivated, and for that matter no less than other products of human work and thought. My thoughts are that life is a rhythmic force. There is no better time to witness this than spring and summer, the time of awakening. As buds burst, plants utilize the power of the sun to expand, renew and reclaim. I feel these pulses through the seasons can be tenderly captured in an intelligent wine. A wine complimented by a reverence and respect for the natural growing rhythms, the pulse of a vines expansion to leaf and contraction to seed. At harvest, the living shift once again with the transformative explosion of life during fermentation, and then the settling and calming during biological stabilization, the tender raising of the wines during assemblage before their passage to bottle, and finally patiently resting/aging before the final journey to your glass… Really, it’s all about the glass of wine at the end of the day.