2018
75cl
DP
£73.40
vintage
portfolio
2018
75cl
DP
£73.40
2019
75cl
DP
£59.40
2019
6x75cl
DP
£356.42
2020
75cl
DP
£71.40
2020
6x75cl
DP
£428.42
2020
6x75cl
DP
£428.42
An expressive and frankly gorgeous nose that opens up with lime and fresh butter, fresh pineapple, lemon zest, and creme brulee along with a touch of fresh mango. This is textured but beautifully fresh on the palate - a wine that coats the mouth with flavour but finishes with life and lift. Tarte fine au citron, pineapple, a touch of cream and grapefruit pith, all built around waves of flesh and freshness. Precision and presence abound in this deeply satisfying Sonoma Coast Chardonnay. Without wanting to damn this with faint praise, it is a dangerously drinkable bottle of wine… The Sonoma Coast cuvee is made up of fruit from Matt’s three single vineyards (the third is called Silver Eagle) and represents a selection made in the cellar, aimed at fine tuning the vineyard designate wines. As such, this represents a blend of top fruit, some of which happened to do its elevage in slightly more neutral oak, thus making it less eligible for the single vineyard wines, and also more approachable in the near term. So not a declassification, more of a multi-site blend.
Great Californian Chardonnay is a world unto itself and in Matt Courtney’s Ferren Wines we are delighted to have unearthed a truly up-and-coming star of the scene. Matt spent 8 years as right-hand man to the legendary Helen Turley at Marcassin before setting up Ferren Wines in 2013. Those lucky enough to have experienced the Marcassin wines will know the style she produces is extrovert and expressive, tenets that Matt has carried over to his own wines, but with a modern sense of refinement, purity tension; attributes that make his wines shine. Make no mistake, these are bold wines – they are bottled Californian sunshine, but that’s not to say they don’t have precision, freshness and layer after layer of flavour. The magnificent richness of these wines is simply the attribute of the exceptional, sustainably farmed fruit that makes up the Ferren range.
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