2025 Picardy Chardonnay (NEW)

Tasting note by Gary Walsh, The Wine Front:

"I like Picardy Chardonnay and they might be best summed up as having flavour with finesse.

Well here’s a beautiful release; it’s all just so. It has a certain delicacy but offers excellent flavour. I’m thinking white peach, lime, a honey floral perfume, mint, green olive and fine spicy nutty oak. Acidity is fine and well-etched, there’s a gentle flintiness to texture, and the finish is long and fine with almond, bright acidity and a saline tang closing it out.

Superb.”

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Picardy Chardonnay is made from equal portions of the four preferred clones 76, 95, 96 and 277 (selected by the University of Dijon) to achieve complexity.

The Pannells are looking towards the great white wines of the old world for inspiration and look to make a Chardonnay with floral characters, citrus fruits and minerality with good structure and texture.

Excellent fruit intensity, structure, pH to acid relationship and fine-grained tannins guarantee long life and excellent bottle development. The wines are also very approachable in their early years.