TASTING NOTES
Colour: Pale gold with frsh green glints
Nose: Perfumed with attractive ripe fruit and floral fragrances
Palate: A full gently sweet entry with a lush and juicy mouthfeel – ripe fruit salad flavours are wonderfully offset by a tangy perky acidity that lifts the wine and takes it through to a fruity yet fresh and inviting finish.
Overall: The wine style is elegant with attractive fruit flavours and a balanced mouth structure. The initial sweetness ends in a dryish aftertaste which has made the wine enormously popular and one of South Africa’s favourites.
IN THE VINEYARD
Selected vines for this specific style of wine from the Western Cape Region.
THE HARVEST
Picking throughout harvest season depending on cultivar - beginning February till early April. Yields of 8-15 tons per hectare depending on cultivar.
IN THE CELLAR
Harvested at optimum ripeness for fullness of flavour and taste, crushed and destemmed, skin contact depending on cultivar, addition of press juice in some instances, settling racking, alcohol fermentation at 15ºC, bulk filtration, blending, sweetening, stabilisation, sterile filtration and bottling.
BLEND INFORMATION
Chenin Blanc, SA Riesling, Rhine Riesling
FOOD SUGGESTIONS
A very drinkable wine served well chilled on its own, or at picnics and braais or with Indian curries, BBQ flavours, summer salads and peri peri chicken.
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