Tasting Notes 1993
1993 Elston Chardonnay is golden green, with a peach, butterscotch and cedar aroma, a complex ripe grapefruit and melon palate with toasty oak flavours on the finish.
It has a development span of 2-4 years from harvest.
Technical Analysis
pH: 3.43
Total acid as tartaric: 8.5g/l
Alcohol: 13%
Residual sugar: Dry
Winemaking
The bunches of grapes were whole cluster pressed, and following settling the juice was all fermented in French Oak, a little less than fifty percent of which was new.
The wine was then aged on lees until blending in December and bottling in January.
58% of the final blend has been through a malolactic fermentation.
Vineyards
1993 Elston Chardonnay was hand harvested between the 14th and 23rd April.
Origin
Elston is named for Elston Hall in Nottinghamshire, the ancestral home of Charles Darwin’s family. Darwin’s ‘theory of natural selection’ forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory, the foundation of biology. The wyvern symbol of Elston Hall appears on the label.
