Great chenin. Lemon curd, golden delicious apple, and a kelpy mineral bass note.
| Article number: | Great chenin. Lemon curd, golden delicious apple, and a kelpy mineral bass note. |
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Grape varieties: Chenin Blanc
Region: Western Cape
Appellation: Stellenbosch
Soils: Boney granite.
Vine age: 10-65 years
Farming: Hand-harvested sustainably-farmed fruit.
Vinification: No sulphur, yeast, acid, enzymes or water were added. Spontaneous ferment in tank.
Aging: Very cloudy juice was transferred to neutral oak barrels, with only the heaviest of solids left behind. Fermentation took place over 4 weeks, after which about half of the barrels completed malolactic fermentation. In Autumn wines were sulphured for the first time. Wines were bottled in December after having spent 11 months in barrel with no racking or fining.
