Jules Taylor Chardonnay Gisborne New Zealand
Style: White Wine
Producer: Jules Taylor
Grape: Chardonnay
Where: Marlborough
Country: New Zealand
Taste: Color : Straw yellow. Nose: The aroma offers an abundance of ripe stonefruits and citrus. These fresh notes are complimented with creamy layers from the wild and malolactic ferments. Memories of baked pastries and toasted nuts come to mind. Palate : A deliciously smooth yet juicy palate with flavours of stonefruits intertwined with the creamy and toasty characters. A wine with veiled complexity and richness but with a refreshing finish.
Vibes with: It’s perfect with a simple barbequed chicken or with fresh seafood flavours such as crayfish (lobster) tails and garlic butter. Alternatively it would be sensational with corn fritters stacked with an arugula salad and a smoky salsa.
Certified Vegan & Organic Farming
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About the Wine:
With only 10% new oak and a partial malolactic ferment, this elegant wine that will convert even the most die-hard chardonnay-basher!
About the Producer:
Born in Marlborough in the year the first vines were planted, Jules has literally grown up with Sauvignon Blanc. Local girl Jules spent several years putting her viticulture and oenology post graduate degree to use as Group Senior Winemaker for one of Marlborough’s largest wineries, and then as Consultant Winemaker to the region’s most prestigious brand. Several life-affirming vintages in Italy underscored Jules’ love of wine as a simple pleasure to be enjoyed alongside good food and great friends. Jules strongly believes wine should be more about creating great memories and less about status or cellaring potential. In 2001, Jules Taylor Wines emerged as a little moonlighting project with a mere 200 cases. Five years, two children and many, many late nights later, George and Jules took the nail-biting decision to put everything on the line, jack in their day jobs, and give their dream a shot. Jules left her corporate winemaking career to give her the freedom to make wines the way she thinks they should be made. Extensive experience with Marlborough’s various vineyard flavor characters, a deep attachment to her home region along with strong personal connections to the grape growing families of Marlborough, allow Jules to source hidden pockets of outstanding fruit. Come harvest time, you’ll find Jules relentlessly walking the rows of each vineyard, tasting berries for days on end, searching for the perfect flavor profile. Leading up to the crucial decision of when to pick to ensure optimum results, she makes the call purely by taste, not relying on results from the laboratory. Jules and George are a picky lot. They only make one batch of each wine at harvest. So, enjoy it while you can. Once it’s gone, it’s well and truly gone.
