Shaw & Smith M3 Chardonnay (37.5cl) Italy

Shaw & Smith M3 Chardonnay (37.5cl) ItalyThe M3 Vineyard at Woodside is named after the vineyard owners, Michael and Martin along with Michaels brother Matthew. It was planted in 1995. Soils here are sandy loam over red yellow clay with underlying shale. The vines are planted at a high density of 2,780 vines per hectare and are hand pruned with vertical shoot positioned canopies. The vineyard is a multiclonal blend of I10V1, Bernard 95 and Bernard 76 from Burgundy. Low yields, no more than

whch are mostly-Zinfandel field blends

enclosing 175 hectares of total area

it reveals the purity of the fruit

The palate is richly textured richly textured as the wine spend 3 months on lees

cultivating a wide variety of local and international grape varieties

and Lytton Springs

Montes was established in 1988 by Aurelio Montes

The vines were trained on a two-cane VSP (vertical shoot positioning) trellis and careful shoot and bunch thinning was carried out to produce a crop level of 7

and minimal handling during cuvaison: no punching down at all

prolonging the growing season and allowing the grapes to fully ripen

It is sold in over 74 countries and is the #1 distributed wine in Global Travel Retail

left by the Ngaruroro River as it changed course over many thousands of years