Vergelegen Premium Chardonnay
REGION: Stellenbosch, S. Africa
VARIETIES: Chardonnay
VITICULTURE: Conventional
YEAR: 2020
ALCOHOL: 13.5%
INFO: Grapes were whole-bunch pressed and not given any skin contact. The juice, slightly clarified, was racked into 20% new French oak barrels and 80% second, third and fourth fill barrels for alcoholic fermentation. All the different vineyards were barrel fermented and matured on the lees for 8 months before bottling on 8 November 2020
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.
Stone and tropical fruits elegantly integrated with sympathetic oak influences to produce a refined wine
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