Kistler is perhaps the USA's greatest producer of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, making a range of exquisite, Burgundy-influenced wines from California's northern coast. Their Noisetieres Chardonnay is a multi-site blend, aged and fermented in a combination of old and new French oak barrels. A rich, complex, mineral white with flavours of peach, citrus, nuts, fresh ginger, vanilla and toast
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We charge a flat fee of £5.95 for delivery if your order is under 20kg, and £10 inc VAT if it is over 20kg. Free delivery is available for orders above £120 (inc VAT).
For Standard Delivery, we will ship items within 2 working days, provided the order is placed before midday.
For Express Delivery, we will ship items the same day, provided the order is placed before midday.
Once your order has been dispatched, you will receive a shipment confirmation email, and the following day, you will receive a text from our courier with a delivery window. If your order has not yet arrived, please email [email protected] and quote your order number.
Keep an eye out for your shipment confirmation email; once you get it, your order will be delivered the next day.
We want all our cusomers to be 100% happy with their order and it is our aim to ensure that all orders are supplied to our customers arrive in perfect condition. You have the right to cancel your order at any time without being charged for the goods ordered within 14 days of purchase.
Excludes perishable or personalised products or those products that have been specified as non-returnable.
If you need to cancel an order you have just placed, you can do so by calling our customer service team on 020 8951 9840 and provide your order confirmation number and name. If you call us after your item has shipped, we will be unable to cancel it and you will need to return to us. Please email us at [email protected] with your order confirmation number, full name and the reason you for the return. Shipping charges are non-refundable. We advise you to obtain a postal receipt or send the items back via recorded delivery.
Steve Kistler and Mark Bixler founded this now legendary winery in 1978, since when it has become one of California’s most revered producers of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Steve Kistler’s vision, pioneering at the time, was to demonstrate transparency of vineyard site. He retired in 2017, passing on the baton of winemaker to Jason Kesner who had himself performed a long apprenticeship as assistant winemaker. The fifteen vineyards in the North Coast stretch from western Sonoma County to Carneros. The majority of them are owned and farmed by Kistler. In deference to site, each of the Chardonnay bottlings are grown from the same heritage clone of Chardonnay (Old Wente) that they have been using since the start. It delivers tiny berries and small bunches, high-acid/low pH wines, and naturally low yields of 2.5 to 3 tons per acre (roughly 33 to 40 hl/ha) Each of those bottlings is vinified in the same fashion, the focus being on the traditional techniques that elicit the earth driven, complex noble sulfides and resulting minerality inherent in the fruit from each site.
The Chardonnay is made using traditional Burgundian techniques and has a very distinct style less focused on fruit than on minerality and soil-driven character. It is barrel-fermented using indigenous yeasts, aged in thirty percent new French oak barrels, un-racked and in contact with all its fermentation lees, undergoes full malolactic fermentation, receives minimal handling and processing. It is bottled unfiltered and un-fined after eleven months of barrel age.
