From their beginnings in South Africa in 1994, they have been pioneers in the wild ferment style that has now been adopted by many producers in the region.
Exploring the country's amazing vineyards to make fabulous wines from specific sites and plots that scream location, location, terroir the home-grown South African winemaking team of JD Rossouw, Ryno Booysen and Pierre Louw drive the energy and enthuasiam for expressing the loveliest wines from their country. The key is knowing the characteristics of each plot, understanding the benefits each cultivar can bring, breaking rules and pushing boundaries. This combination of knowledge, a love of nature and science to create versatile, expressive and food-friendly wines from a country that has been making wine for 360 years.
Cape Heights Chardonnay 2022
14% abv
Don’t worry, its unoaked. Go on, try it, you might like it. Fruit is sourced from long-established vineyards on the Wellington/Swartland borders. Grapes are painstakingly hand-picked in the early morning to help keep them cool and fresh, and to preserve the perfumed jasmine notes and white stone fruit flavours. The wine is kept in contact with its lees to add breadth to the palate. Great with chicken and creamy pasta dishes. Brilliant value!
Production
The Chardonnay grapes for this unoaked wine are sourced from long established vineyards on the Wellington/Swartland borders of the Western Cape. This area receives little rainfall and the soil is a mixture of alluvial riverbed stones, decomposed granite and shale. The vines are low-trellised and the grapes are picked by hand in the early hours of the morning to retain their freshness. On arrival to the winery, grapes are chilled and the juice settled in tank prior to fermentation. A proportion of the grapes are full bunch pressed, the rest are destemmed and cold fermented. We keep the wine on its fine lees in stainless steel tanks for as long as possible prior to bottling.
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2022 | Africa | Cape Heights | Chardonnay | Duty Paid | South Africa | Still | White | Wine- Reference #:
- 4963
- Strength
- 14 ABV
- Bottles per Case
- 6 bottles
- Grapes
- Chardonnay
- Organic
- No
- Biodynamic
- No
- Vegan
- Yes
- Vegetarian
- Yes
- Sparkling
- No