Vinotèque Reserve Chardonnay

R 500.00

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For those who appreciate Chardonnay with age and character, this elegant 2020 vintage offers generous layers of ripe peach, pineapple and apricot, lifted by citrus and spice, with alluring buttered-toast notes and a long, mineral finish.

Vintage:

2020

Variant

Tasting Notes

The wine shows an attractive lemony yellow-green colourwith a complex nose of citrus, white peach, pineapple, spice, citrus blossoms, apricot and buttered toast aromas. The taste is long and elegant with a lively minerality.

Additional Information

Winemaking

Grapes were whole-bunch pressed with no skin contact. The juice, with some clarification, was racked into 30% new French oak barrels (Francois Frère, Dargaud &
Jaegle, St Martin) and 70% second and third-fill barrels for alcoholic fermentation. The spontaneous onset of fermentation was allowed for, and after 7 days the barrels were inoculated with a pure culture yeast strain.
Fermentation took approximately 15 days to complete - once the sugar was fermented, all 50 barrels were topped up. Only one-third of the barrels were
allowed to complete malolactic fermentation to retain optimum acidity/freshness. The young wine was left on the gross lees for 8 months with regular batonnage, then stabilized and bottled on 10th of November 2019.
Release date January 2022. Total production 12300 bottles.

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Analysis

100% Chardonnay

Alc 13.55%

RS 2.09g/l

TA 6.29/l

pH 3.25

Fact Sheet

Reserve Chardonnay 2020