- Organic / Biodynamic (uncertified)
- Soil type: Clay, Gravel
- Fermented spontaneously using low-intervention
- Sulphites: Low sulphites: 25 mg/L
- Fining (clarification): Unfined
- Filtering: Unfiltered
- Suitable for Vegans and vegetarians
- Alcohol: tbc
- Residual sugar: <1 g/L
- Vessel type: Clay Pot - Amphora
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Alcohol: 11.5% Vines planted in 1993 Suitable for Vegan and Vegetarian Tasting Note: From a small block of vines this is a beautifully-wrought Chardonnay that reminds one of top Chablis. Light golden colour, nose of fresh rain, chalk and just-ripe pear, a palate of orchard fruit framed by fine minerality and a pleasing seam of lemon-flecked acid. • Manual harvest • Whole bunch • Fermented (ambient) in Italian amphora 500L • Indigenous yeast • Length of ferment – 20 days • Racking? Yes - twice • Natural malolactic? Yes • Maturation in Italian amphora for 10 months
Short history: Don Wines is owned by Josefina Venturino and Alex Craighead (Winemaker). “Don” is named after Josefina’s grandfather Don Ramon Dus and is a homage to family, honesty and simplicity. Don Ramon, a native of Concepcion del Uruguay in Argentina, is an avid wine lover with a lifelong fascination with farming.- Nelson, New Zealand
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DON Barn Block Chardonnay, 2018
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