Bela Voda White

Half Chardonnay, eighteen months in new French oak. An oaked Chardonnay in every way that matters. Pear and white peach first, then a little orange peel and vanilla. It carries itself like something richer, but citrus and green apple keep it fresh, and it finishes buttery and long.

Pour it with sea bass or sea bream. It stands up to roast chicken and to veal in a mushroom sauce. This is a white for the table, not just the aperitif.

This is our flagship white. Pressed straight into new French barrique and aged there, which is where the weight and the vanilla come from. And it rewards patience. Left alone it moves toward honey, hazelnut and truffle. Few whites make that journey.

Bela Voda means white water. Two hectares of clay where the climate turns Mediterranean, from vines thirty-five years old. Tikveš has made wine here since 1885.