Kim Crawford Tietjen Gisborne Chardonnay 1999

Chardonnay from Gisborne, New Zealand

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Product Details

Varietal

Chardonnay

Region

Gisborne, New Zealand

Producer

Kim Crawford

Vintage

1999

Size

750ML

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Winemaker Notes

Color: Pale straw with green and gold edges. Aroma: Peaches and passion fruit are complexed by nutty oak and smoky malolactic notes. Palate: A big intense wine, packed with layers of fruit, including passion fruit, mangoes and peaches. The mid-palate is sweet with oak and creamy malolactic notes, and the finish is long. This is a Chardonnay to savor over the next four years. It offers instant rewards but will develop complexity in the next two to three years, peaking with good cellaring around the millennium.

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Kim Crawford

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Kim Crawford Winemaker Anthony Walkenhorst Winery Image

Kim Crawford Wines started out in a small Auckland cottage in New Zealand. Since its launch in 1996, the label has gained critical acclaim around the globe. Kim Crawford wines capture the true aromas and flavors of New Zealand in each bottle. The established leader of luxury-priced Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand, Kim Crawford combines a passion for excellence in winemaking with a vision of exploring new boundaries.

Chardonnay Wine

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One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.

Gisborne Wine

New Zealand

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Occupying the North Island’s East Cape, Gisborne keeps The Bay of Plenty to its northwest and Hawkes Bay on its southwestern side. It is the country’s most distinctive producer of Chardonnay, with heavy investment here until Sauvignon blanc stole the country’s limelight. Gisborne produces soft and charming Chardonnay, boasting stone and tropical fruit flavors.

The region includes a good number of artisanal winemakers but many larger Auckland producers source from Gisborne for their own Chardonnay bottlings.

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