Tasting Notes for Battle of Bosworth Chardonnay from the Winery

Nougat, cashew and peach on the nose. Beautiful oak characters frame the very gentle tropical and stone fruit characters on the palate and encased within a structure of super delicate but convincing natural acidity. Great stuff.

Winemaking

We pick at night when the grapes are cooler and bring them into the winery before dawn. how incredibly romantic! The grapes are pressed off their skins and pumped into barrel (new and French oak hogsheads – 500 litre barrels) to undergo a wild, natural ferment. We try our hardest not to let the wine go through MALO (MLF or malolactic fermentation) so that the wine retains its crisp natural acidity. Once ferment is finished the wine then spends about 6 months in oak before bottling.

Vintage

We didn’t think that things could get much better after the 2021 season, but we were wrong. It was almost spooky:  average winter and early spring rains, a cool summer and gentle ripening conditions throughout the 2022 season. This ripening period was also dry, and we didn’t experience any heat spikes at all; everything ripened in order and with a break between the varieties. Veraison (the stage of grape development when the grapes change colour as they get nearer to harvest) was later than usual, and picking across all varieties was a little later than usual, too. Overall, 2022 was a terrific vintage, with super quality whites.

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