Craggy Range Vineyards Kidnappers Vineyard Chardonnay 2007

A pale straw color with vivid green hues. Gunflint, almond and lemon zest characterize the aroma. The wine has a steely edged structure and the mid-palate is filled with white peach and oyster-shell flavors. It draws into a long, spicy finish.

Our Kidnappers Vineyard is strategically located right on the Hawkes Bay coastline at Te Awanga where the spring and autumns are warm and sunny and the summer is tempered by the cooling sea breeze. The shallow warm clay loam soils and careful selection of clones in this environment allows the development of very pure cool Chardonnay flavors in the grapes. These are best expressed in the single vineyard Chardonnay we produce from this vineyard which is inspired by the great wines of Chablis. Having said that, our Kidnappers Vineyard Chardonnay is its own modern New World expression of pure, unadulterated, pristine Chardonnay grapes from Te Awanga.