The efflux of an extinct volcano — an exceptional growing site for our oldest Chardonnay vineyard.
CHARDONNAY
TASTING NOTES
Smells of yellow plum and mimosa flowers. Sonorous. A wine that reverberates through the body like an electric current. Almost physically crackles in the mouth, like reworks against a dark sky. The spice is like a wall of ne powder. Golden flowers, chamomile and the pencil-sketched shadow of honey. Massive lift through the nose. Powerful without being heavy, power with precision. I love the mouth-watering dustiness, the chalk haze that seems to run like autumn-mist ribbons in the valley.
Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com
VINIFICATION
Four days of skin contact, then pressed and into a big barrel for 15 months. No new oak. 10% picked before harvest to start a pied du cuve.
| TERROIR | Kramarovci, Goričko, Slovenia |
| SOIL | basalt tuff, phyllite slate, calcareous sandy marl, residual marine sediments |
| ELEVATION | 320m-350m |
| VARIETY | Chardonnay |
| VINE AGE | 41 years |
| FARMING | organic |
| YIELD | 20hl/ha |
| BOTTLING | August 2020, no filtration |
| ANALYSIS | alcohol 13,5%vol., acidity 5,5g/l, sugar 1,6g/l |
