product description
Tony Bish Golden Egg Chardonnay 2023
Tasting Note:
Pale straw with green highlights. Lifted white
flower aromas with lime blossom, honeydew
melon, and a flinty dry stone minerality.
The palate is energetic with pink grapefruit,
honeydew melon juiciness, and a silky textural
flow. The finish has a saline mineral quality with
fresh and textured acidity leading to a salivating
palatableness.
Aromas and flavours:
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Review
Review for Tony Bish Golden Egg Chardonnay 2023:
Cameron Douglas MS
CamDouglasMS.com
A fascinating and complex wine with a bouquet that is slow at first to open up then suddenly a rush of aromas that embrace ripe white fleshed fruits, sweet grapefruit, and gentle mineral complexities. A poised and youthful wine touches the palate, first reflecting flavours from the bouquet then showcasing a mineral and sense of place layer. Persistent, taut and textured remains the theme with core flavours from fruits, lees and a fine chalky mouthfeel. Well made, complex and ready to drink from early 2025 through 2030.
Type: White wine
Varietal: Chardonnay
Alcohol: 12.5% vol
Wine style: dry
Total acidity: 5.8 g/l
Residual sugar: <1 g/l
Winemaking: Hand-picked Hawke’s Bay chardonnay from three
vineyards in the Bridge Pa and Mangatahi sub-
regions were whole bunch-pressed, with only free
run juice progressing to ferment in two concrete
egg fermenters. Egg-shaped fermenters keep
yeast lees in suspension through the naturally
occurring convection currents unique to the egg
shape. Purity of fruit is maintained, richness and
texture build, and the wine develops in a way
totally different to stainless steel tanks or oak
barrels. There is an element of minerality imparted
through the winemaking process in concrete eggs
that is usually apparent on the finish. Minimally
handled through to bottling.
Bottle size: 0.75l
Notice: Contains sulfites.
Cellaring potential: 2030+
Closure: Screwcap
Produced and bottled by: Bish Wines Ltd., 3 Ossian Street, Ahuiri, 4110 Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
Imported and distributed by: vinabonus GmbH, Simmedenweg 40, 34134 Kassel, Germany
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