Le Sirocco Chardonnay

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£6.60 per 75cl sold in boxes of 6 bottles

This unoaked Chardonnay is named after the warm, dry Sirocco wind that blows across the Mediterranean from the Sahara desert, ripening the grapes. The Chardonnay variety is the first to be harvested on Domaine Sainte Rose. It is harvested at night in order to control fermentation and to ensure that the juice and therefore the wine is of the highest possible quality. We suggest drinking this wine as an aperitif or with seafood.

Colour:    Pale yellow with a touch of green

Nose:       Expressive, fresh and clean with citrus characteristics and hints of grapefruit, pineapple and pear.

Palate:     Crisp and fresh with a long finish. Good acidity balanced with a rich quality.

Drink:       Now until 2008

Available vintages: 2005 and 2006

 

3rd Party Reviews On ‘Le Sirocco’ (Chardonnay):-

"Very ripe white peach aromas – more ample than you might expect – with lots of freshness on palate. This easy-to-like wine should have quite a long life thanks to its concentration."

Jancis Robinson MW, www.jancisrobinson.com , September 2007

 

"This one's a mystery, a Chardonnay that tastes like a cross between a Riesling and a particularly rich Sauvignon Blanc.  I served it one summer evening in the Languedoc and the visitors who like Sauvignon loved it, and so did I because it gave me the same pleasure- massively revitalising plus aroma- as Riesling"

Jancis Robinson MW, www.jancisrobinson.com , September 2005

"If you have tasted the 2004(Le Sirocco), you will know just how good this wine is and, for my money, the 2005 is even better. Very definitely, the best un-oaked Chardonnay we know from this region."

Leon Stolarski Fine Wines, December 2006

 

"the mealliness and richness on nose and palate might fool many tasters into thinking this was a lightly-oaked wine, but in fact it is 100% un-oaked Chardonnay. There is nuttiness as well as succulent, sappy fruit on the nose, before a palate that is beautifully weighted between ripe, pineapple and tropical fruit, and a savoury, almond and cool pear quality. There is lovely fruit sweetness here and fine balance into a long, very creamy and composed finish. Leon Stolarski says "Brilliant value for money," and he is not wrong: this is excellent"

Tom Cannavan, wine-pages.com, 2005

"...this is a really stylish wine!  Hints of nougat are countered by refreshing lemon crispness.  Perfect with salmon, ham, chicken and salads"

Mary Dowey, Irish Times, June 2004

"A textbook Chardonnay that will be used as a benchmark for a later Burgundy tasting"

Joseph Berkmann, MD Berkmann Wine Cellars, 2003

"A light, fruity, unoaked style but quite rich and smooth on the palate with a lovely fresh, citrussy finish."

David Dickenson, MD 3D Wines, 2003

"Palate is very good, excellent in fact. Rounded and smooth … and perfectly judged acidity. Really very good – no oak, letting the pure chardonnay fruit shine through …90/100 (outstanding)"

Andy Barrow, http://www.andys-scribblings.co.uk/, 2003