Vinbeskrivelse
Chardonnay Reserve 2016:
We release our Chardonnay Reserve in the first year after the harvest. It has a bright straw yellow colour with golden highlights and exquisite aroma, with scents reminiscent of tropical fruit, ginger, spice and oatmeal. Well structured and minerally with flavours of lime and toasted almonds on the palate.
Prime drinking begins at 3-4 years, although this top vintages remain impressive for up to 10 years.
GRAPES: Chardonnay 100%
VINEYARDS:
A plot of 2.8 hectares in Greywacke soils with a clay content between 15-20%, on south westerly facing slopes at an altitude of 400-450 metres above sea level. The vines, an average age of 33 years, are planted at a density of 5000 per hectare and trained in the Guyot cordon system.
VINIFICATION & AGING:
Fermented with (spontaneous) yeast in traditional 225l French barriques. The wine, of 13% alcohol, remains on the lees where it undergoes malolactic fermentation and is stirred periodically in what is known as batonnage. The Chardonnay Reserve is kept in barrels for 14 months and 25% is matured in Nomblot eggs. Each barrel must be judged worthy of the final blend.
STYLE & MATURITY:
It has a bright straw yellow colour with golden highlights and exquisite aroma, with scents reminiscent of tropical fruit, ginger, spice and oatmeal. Well structured and minerally with flavours of lime and toasted almonds on the palate.
