Wine Composition
100% Chardonnay
Winemakers Comments
This Chardonnay has a delicately floral nose with hints of nutmeg and cloves. The palate has a racy acidity with notes of limes and lemon merangue pie, some saline minerality and well integrated oak character. The finish is long with a beautiful purity. Best served at 10-12°C, this wine will show optimally when decanted within the first 3 years after bottling and will reward if cellared properly over 10 years.
Awards
Tim Atkin | 96 points
Technical Analysis
Alcohol Percentage
13.5%
TA
7.0 g/l
RS
1.9 g/l
pH
3.23
Cellar Techniques
The grapes are chilled in our cold room, after which they are pressed whole bunch and allowed to settle overnight. The must is then racked to barrel for fermentation and temperatures are not allowed to exceed 24°C. Fermentation lasted 42 days after which the wine went through partial malolactic fermentation. After spending 12 months on the lees, in barrique, 30% new, the wine was racked, blended, minimal sulphur added and aged a further 6 months in barrel before bottling.
Winemaker
Name - Andrea Mullineux
Winery
In 2007 Chris and Andrea Mullineux established Mullineux Family Wines in the Swartland wine region of South Africa. For many years, our viticulturist, Rosa Kruger, had been enthusing to us about special parcels of vines outside the Swartland, but we couldn’t use these as our Mullineux and Kloof Street ranges are exclusively from Swartland vineyards.
The partnership of Chris & Andrea with Analjit Singh in 2013, and the renaming of the company to Mullineux & Leeu Family Wines, opened the way for a new project – Leeu Passant – to be based at the wine cellar on Leeu Estates in Franschhoek. Leeu Passant was a fantastic opportunity to harness these exciting vineyards to create something under a new label in a different wine region, but with the same no-compromise approach to quality that Chris & Andrea share with Bas, and with which our Mullineux range of wines is made.
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