Meerlust - Chardonnay - 750ml
Sourced from 3 vineyards on the Estate, the first planted in 1991 (23 years old in year of vintage) situated on alluvial Dundee soils which produces the rich textured mouth feel and minerality. The younger vineyards were planted in 2007 on Cartref soils giving a greater fruit expression. Crop thinning occurred at pruning and at veraison. Five separate picking stages at optimum ripeness. Hand picked. Partial whole bunch pressing and static settling overnight. Some solids remained in the juice
Tasting Notes:
Very bright, polished platinum with green, vivacious hue. Complex, appealing nose with pear, citrus and floral notes developing into lemon cream, oatmeal and marzipan richness. On the palate the wine is medium bodied and linear but retains generous focused citrus fruit flavours with sleek, balanced and crisp acidity. The wine remains vivacious and fresh on the finish with clean citrus fruit and stony minerality. The wine has a long, very pleasant lingering finish.Transferred to 50% new tight grain Allier French Oak and 50% second fill 300 Litre barrels for fermentation. Half of the barrels were inoculated with selected Chardonnay yeast, while the other half underwent un-inoculated, spontaneous fermentation. After fermentation, the wine was given a racking to remove heavy lees and returned to barrel for malolactic fermentation. The wine was barrel matured for 11 months before bottling
Features:
- The Meerlust - Chardonnay has won numerous accolades
- Received 5 Stars in John Platter's wine Guide 2017
- Achieved a 90 point score in the UK based wine journal, Decanter in April 2017
- The characteristics of this wine is as follow: Dry, Full, Mineral and White
Specifications:
- Weight: 1.2kg
- Size: 750ml
- Material: Glass
- Alcohol by Volume: 13%
- Country of Origin: South Africa
- Warranty: Non-Returnable
