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2010 Ocean Eight Verve Chardonnay
Wine Making
The inspiration for the Ocean Eight Verve Chardonnay comes from this region of Chablis. The chardonnay grapes for this wine are the earliest picked on the Mornington Peninsula with the exception of fruit for Sparkling.
The Ocean Eight Chardonnay is handpicked and delivered to our gravity fed winery. The chardonnay grapes are pressed as whole bunches and the juice is fed by gravity into our underground barrel room.
The wine is stored for 10-12 months on full solids in 'old' oak barrels. The aim is to maintain excellent natural acidity that will enable the wine to age well. There is no new oak used in this wine. As with our pinot noir we want to highlight the fruit spectrum of racy lemon/lime acidity without coating the wine with unbalancing oak flavours. This is the reason we call our Chardonnay Verve (lively). It is a descriptor for the racy acidity that trademarks this wine year in year out.
Tasting Notes
The Ocean Eight Verve Chardonnay is a very subtle wine! There are macadamia-nut aromas with some clove spices from barrel fermentation. The fruit is very much in the lime and grapefruit spectrum. The finish is the highlight with a racy acid and mineral mouth-feel up the centre of the pallet. This wine will match well with Oysters, Scallops and other subtle seafood dishes.
