Wine Composition
100% Chardonnay
Winemakers Comments
The wine shows an attractive lemony yellow-green colour with a complex nose of citrus, peach, tropical fruit and mineral tones. The palate is long and full with delicate wooding. Beautifully refined and elegant.
Accolades
Tim Atkin | 92 points
John Platter | 4 stars
Technical Analysis
Alcohol Percentage
13.72%
TA
6.15 g/l
pH
3.33
RS
1.38 g/l
Cellar Techniques
Grapes were whole-bunch pressed and not given any skin contact. The juice, slightly clarified, was racked into 20% new French oak barrels (Francois Frère, Dargaud & Jaegle and 80% second, third and fourth fill barrels) for alcoholic fermentation. All the different vineyards were barrel fermented and matured on the lees for 10 months before bottling on 28 January. Released July 2019.
Winemaker
Name: Andre Van Rensburg
Winery
Vergelegen Estate, a world-class destination and three times winner of the Great Wine Capitals Global Best of Wine Tourism Award, offers visitors an exceptional opportunity to view an array of 17 gardens, a choice of dining experiences, as well as unique garden and cellar tours.
When Willem Adriaan succeeded his father, Simon van der Stel, as governor of the Cape in 1700, it didn't take long before he claimed a modest 30,000 hectare piece of land for himself just as his father had done in his time at Constantia. It took three days by ox-wagon to reach Willem Adriaan's farm on the slopes of the Hottentots Holland mountain range overlooking the Atlantic Ocean; hence its name 'Vergelegen', meaning 'situated far away'.
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