Star 69 // Chardonnay 2022
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FREE LOCAL DELIVERY: Add the code 'CAM’ at checkout to receive free local delivery to CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4 & CB5 postcodes. Collection from the winery is also available, use code ‘CAM’ and please email Chris to arrange collection once you have placed your order
FREE NATIONAL DELIVERY: If ordering 6 bottles or more across the Gutter&Stars range, add the code '666' at checkout to receive free UK mainland delivery
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Description
This Essex Chardonnay from the outstanding 2022 vintage is waxy and lithe with bold tropical fruit, a lime-accented acidity and hints of sweet spice. The grapes come from Missing Gate Vineyard in the Crouch Valley.
Picked by hand in early-October this small block of Chardonnay was whole-bunch pressed then cold-settled in tank for 48 hours before being racked into French oak barrels (ex-Burgundy, third and fourth fill).
Alcoholic and malolactic fermentation took place simultaneously in barrel in the cool Gutter&Stars cellar. Fermentation took 48 days.
The barrels were topped and the wine matured on its gross lees with no battonage until January 2024 when it was blended and bottled. In total the Chardonnay spent 15 months in oak, adding roundness, richness and structure to the bold tropical fruit and electric acidity.
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FREE LOCAL DELIVERY: Add the code 'CAM’ at checkout to receive free local delivery to CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4 & CB5 postcodes. Collection from the winery is also available, use code ‘CAM’ and please email Chris to arrange collection once you have placed your order
FREE NATIONAL DELIVERY: If ordering 6 bottles or more across the Gutter&Stars range, add the code '666' at checkout to receive free UK mainland delivery
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Description
This Essex Chardonnay from the outstanding 2022 vintage is waxy and lithe with bold tropical fruit, a lime-accented acidity and hints of sweet spice. The grapes come from Missing Gate Vineyard in the Crouch Valley.
Picked by hand in early-October this small block of Chardonnay was whole-bunch pressed then cold-settled in tank for 48 hours before being racked into French oak barrels (ex-Burgundy, third and fourth fill).
Alcoholic and malolactic fermentation took place simultaneously in barrel in the cool Gutter&Stars cellar. Fermentation took 48 days.
The barrels were topped and the wine matured on its gross lees with no battonage until January 2024 when it was blended and bottled. In total the Chardonnay spent 15 months in oak, adding roundness, richness and structure to the bold tropical fruit and electric acidity.
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FREE LOCAL DELIVERY: Add the code 'CAM’ at checkout to receive free local delivery to CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4 & CB5 postcodes. Collection from the winery is also available, use code ‘CAM’ and please email Chris to arrange collection once you have placed your order
FREE NATIONAL DELIVERY: If ordering 6 bottles or more across the Gutter&Stars range, add the code '666' at checkout to receive free UK mainland delivery
*****
Description
This Essex Chardonnay from the outstanding 2022 vintage is waxy and lithe with bold tropical fruit, a lime-accented acidity and hints of sweet spice. The grapes come from Missing Gate Vineyard in the Crouch Valley.
Picked by hand in early-October this small block of Chardonnay was whole-bunch pressed then cold-settled in tank for 48 hours before being racked into French oak barrels (ex-Burgundy, third and fourth fill).
Alcoholic and malolactic fermentation took place simultaneously in barrel in the cool Gutter&Stars cellar. Fermentation took 48 days.
The barrels were topped and the wine matured on its gross lees with no battonage until January 2024 when it was blended and bottled. In total the Chardonnay spent 15 months in oak, adding roundness, richness and structure to the bold tropical fruit and electric acidity.
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