Lindauer Special Reserve Blanc De Blanc NV 75cl

6 x Bottle (75cl)

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£84.96

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  • Colour

    White

  • Vintage

    Non Vintage

  • Producer

    Lindauer

  • Country

    NEW ZEALAND

  • Region

    GISBOURNE

  • Alcohol

    12%

  • Product code

    8LIN4BNV

  • Availability

    33 cases

  • Grape Variety

    100% Chardonnay


Tasting Notes

Pale, straw-gold in colour with a delicate aroma of broken

biscuit, intermingled with lemon sorbet. Layers of creaminess with underlying grapefruit define the palate, giving a refined and elegant wine with complex yeast characters.

Vinification Details.

The grapes are harvested at an optimum balance between fruit fl avour, acidity and sweetness. The juice is separated quickly and gently from the skins and allowed to naturally oxidize to remove some of the phenolic bitterness. The juice is then inoculated with a range of yeast, specially selected to enhance and complement the sparkling wine characters of yeast autolysis. The juice is fermented quickly under strictly controlled conditions and followed by total malolactic fermentation, all the time staying in contact with the yeast lees. This increases the texture of the wine. After cellaring for at least three months, the cuvée base wines are gently fined, carefully blended and a portion of reserve wine (premium base wine components held over from previous year to ensure consistency and complexity) added. The composition of this cuvee is 100% Chardonnay. Finally the base cuvée is chilled and filtered. The blended base cuvée has sugar and yeast added and is then bottled. The bottles are laid on their sides in bins inside temperature controlled cellars to undergo a secondary fermentation in the bottle. The fermentation lasts six to eight weeks, during which time the sugar is converted to alcohol and CO2. The CO2 pressurises the bottle and gives the Lindauer its bubbles.

The cuvee stays on lees an average of 24 months and when the cuvée is considered to have aged on lees suffi ciently, the yeast is removed and the wine sweetened.


Regional info.

The long cool maritime infl uenced growing season of the Gisborne and Hawke's Bay districts, where Lindauer fruit is sourced, is capable of maturing grapes well past the point at which they are suitable for sparkling wines. The timing of harvest is therefore very important and closely monitored. The early season harvest of sparkling grapes ensures that they experience a season which very closely mimics that of more classically defi ned cool climate regions. The advantage of this early harvest is surety of ripeness and balance, but with natural acidities the envy of many wine growing regions of the world. The Chardonnay harvest is timed so the fruit fl avours and aromas are still in the yellow citrus to green apple fruit spectrum.

Generally sites with strong silt and clay soils are preferred, as they provide the natural vigour and water holding capacity required to quickly ripen crops early in the season, before they lose acidity or ripen into the more golden fruit fl avours. The larger canopies produced on these soils aid fruit shading and provide a strong engine to ripen the healthy crop loadings.

More information

ageing potential

Drink now/up to 2 years

wine ph

3.1

food match

Great with fresh seafood, in particular shellfish, especially oysters.

residual sugar

12g/l

total acidity

7.6g/l



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