- SIZE:
- 75cl
- ABV:
- 13.6%
This is Marlborough Chardonnay, but not as most know it. After years working alongside Jura legend Domaine Labet, Ashleigh Barrowman has brought that same Jura-centric, "vins vivants" philosophy to the Southern Valleys.
Sourced from the biodynamic Wrekin Vineyard, the Queen of Swords is all about tension and savoury detail. It’s lean and saline, trading tropical fruit for notes of bruised apple, flint, and a nutty, yeast-driven complexity from 18 months on lees. Unfined and unfiltered, it has a beautiful, hazy energy and a punchy, saline finish that makes it incredibly food-friendly. High-wire New Zealand white at its most compelling.
Ashleigh Barrowman is one of a few small producers who are taking on the monster that is Marlborough, and changing everything we know about the wine produced there.
Ashleigh has played the travelling winemaker, most notably in Burgundy, under Jean-Jacques Morel, and in Jura under both Jean-Baptiste Menigoz and Florien Kleine Snuverink at Les Bottes Rouges, and Charline, Julien and Romain Labet at Domaine Labet.
Finally, in 2019 when the world stopped, she found a little nook of Wrekin vineyard that was perfect for her own winemaking story. Here, she is growing Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc and Pinot Noir, making clever, refined wines that are living, and full of soul. Select your tarot card; the Queen of Cups, the Queen of Swords or the High Priestess.
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