Kelly Washington Organic Chardonnay 2020

Kelly Washington Wines is a boutique winery producing small-batch, single-vineyard wines that authentically reflect the terroir of New Zealand’s diverse wine regions.
Founded in 2016 by experienced winemakers Tamra Kelly-Washington and her husband Simon Washington. They seek out the most unique and diverse parcels of vines, and work with a fastidious bunch of growers who have a love for the land, and are unrelenting in their pursuit of nurturing exceptional fruit from distinguished sites. Old vines, high density planting, vineyards of altitude, organic and biodynamic farming – these are the attributes they seek from the growers they work with.

Working with such exceptional fruit, their aim is to is to showcase and explore sub regionality, but moreover make wines of which are elegant, honest, and truly reflect the land they're from.

The grapes were sourced from the Rapaura subregion, specifically from organically farmed vines over 25 years old rooted in the valley's clay soils. Grapes were handpicked and whole-bunch pressed, and the juice was fermented using naturally occurring yeasts, in new and neutral French oak barrels and puncheons, introducing subtle complexity and texture. Post-fermentation, the wine was aged on lees in oak, before filtering and bottling.