Chardonnay Guinevere Twenty Twenty
Elegant and complex, this citrus-driven still Chardonnay is one of our most awarded wines. This comes from the 2020 vintage, which was especially generous and warm, resulting in rich, complex wines.
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5+ awards won - including:
- Best Chardonnay - Wine GB 2021
- Gold - Wine GB 2022
- Silver - Decanter 2022
- Silver - IWSC 2022
- Silver - IWC 2022
IMPRESSIVE FOCUS AND POISE
Silvery in hue, it has a well-defined bouquet with almond and sesame scents, developing subtle marine-like notes with aeration. The oak is nicely integrated, which is underpinned by a fine bead of acidity that counters the creamy texture. Sour lemon mixes with white peach and hazelnut, maintaining impressive focus and poise toward the persistent finish. Excellent.
BUTTERY ON THE PALATE
Aged in 20% new French oak for 10 months, the 2017 'Guinevere' Chardonnay has a pronounced sweet vanilla, yellow apple and creamy brioche perfume with notes of thyme and flint. Saline and buttery on the palate, with concentrated vanilla, ripe yellow apple, pear drop and lime-like acidity, dusted with wood spices; butterscotch flavours linger on.
IMPRESSIVE RIPE CITRIC FRUITS
In my quest to find decent English still wines, this barrel fermented and aged chardonnay (10 months French oak) from Boot Hill vineyard in Appledore impressed me with its ripe citric fruits, sleek elegant mid-palate and toasty nutty finish.
PRETTY DAMN SOPHISTICATED
Tasted blind. NHB. Green melon. Matcha cream, greengages in cinnamon syrup. Quite an exciting nose that is much more expressive when the wine is around 14°C (57 °F). Beautiful oak – tastes expensive. Fine, sandalwood, almost smoky, almost cardamom, almost pepper. Mollis pepper. Green apple and white pear dipped in za’atar. Pretty damn sophisticated. Calm. Lean but balanced and with good forward focus. This has breeding… 17.5.
a Burgundian sense of place
An attractive nose of papaya, mango and poached pear, hints of vanillin deferring to the wood and a lick of spice. The palate is once again finely judged, vestigial lees evidenced with hints of sourdough and brioche, impressively entwined with ripe fruit, both citric and modestly exotic, and a Burgundian sense of place; the place in question being Kent! 91 points
Chardonnay Guinevere Twenty Twenty
Analysis
GRAPE VARIETY:
100% Chardonnay
ALCOHOL:
12.5%
TITRATABLE ACIDITY:
6.5g/l
PH:
3.26
Factsheets:
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2020 2019Winemaking
CLONES:
548 and 95
PROCESSING:
100% whole bunch pressed.
Fermentation at cellar temperature in barriques
BARREL AGEING:
10 months in French oak, 20% new, 80% old
MALOLACTIC:
100%
BOTTLING DATE:
December 2021
