Keeva’s Select Chardonnay is so much more than just another new world Chardonnay. It’s a well designed and perfectly crafted white wine that suits extra cold serving temperatures.
Typically white wines are best served at 7 to 10 degrees C. This is the perfect serving temperature for European climates and European style wines. It’s cold enough to be considered chilled and refreshing on a warm day, but not too cold and not at the point where the bouquet and the flavours of the wine are repressed and dull.
However, in a world driven by a couple of generations of consuming extra cold beverages (lagers, soft drinks and even iced coffee), combined with life in much warmer climates than Europe (China and most of South East Asia have aggressively hot and humid summers) the traditional serving for white wines is far from an engaging and refreshing experience.
Our challenge was to craft a white wine that could be served at 4 degrees C, while still retaining the qualities and characteristics that we have all come to expect from a quality Chardonnay. This comes from our basic principles of quality assurance from handpicking and hand-selecting grape bunches, a single press on the grapes and a slow fermentation process.
The wine is then separated into 4 batches, that each undergoes a different oak cask maturation process. The wines are then combined and vatted together to create a harmonious marriage between the 4 different wine structures before being bottled and brought to you.
Tasting Notes
Nose: Pears, pineapples, acacia flowers and delicate vanilla
Palette: Shredded green papaya and white nectarines strike the palate, rounded off with a delicate hint of citrus.
Food Pairings: As with all good white wines, Keeva’s Select Chardonnay is a good match for poultry. Chicken, duck and turkey are all brought to life with this wine. But where this wine really comes into its own is with seafood and shellfish. Oysters, mussels, crab and lobster are invigorated by this wine. Trout and salmon, as fillets or steaks, are energised by the fruit balanced acidity of this Chardonnay. Rich and oily sea fish are carefully complimented with this bottle.
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