Sam Harrop Grand Amateur Watchmaker Hawke's Bay, 2019

The 2019 Grand Amateur Watchmaker Chardonnay has delicious malted biscuit, toast and fruit aromas. It is complex and mellow with grapefruit and pineapple fruits emerging. This is a supple medium-bodied wine, restrained in nature with fresh lemon flavours and a long flinty mineral finish. Grapes were grown on the Howell Vineyard under superb growing conditions. They were picked by hand on March 15, 2019, and whole-bunch pressed. Traditional Burgundian yeasts completed fermentation in oak, and the wine was matured in barrel until late February, 2020.