A delicious white that is lightly oaked for 3 months; the wood shows up on the palate as a fresh undertone of vanilla bean. With its abundant floral apple fruit, you'd never mistake this for anything but a great Chardonnay. It's drinking well today but could certainly hold for a few years to come.
The next time you get invited to a wine tasting party, this bottle will be a surefire winner. Made by the third generation of the De Wet family, it’s a Chardonnay that demonstrates Old World qualities but with a New World price. Bonus: It’s guaranteed to throw even experienced blind tasters for a loop when trying to pin down its geographical location. Classic varietal notes of lemon, lime, green apple, honeysuckle, along with a mineral streak from the limestone-dominant soils. This is the kind of go-to staple that will have a regular place at your table.
South Africa is often lumped together, under some arbitrary umbrella heading, with the other wine-producing regions of the southern hemisphere - South America, Australia, New Zealand, etc. This does a severe injustice both to the fantastic wines of South Africa and to the wine consumer: the region is peerless in its harmonious synthesis of New and Old World winemaking styles. Wines lately coming...
From Champagne to Chablis, it's hard (not to mention unpleasant) to avoid this famous white variety. During a huge popularity surge beginning in the late 1980s, Chardonnay plantings have increased dramatically -- not only in California's wine country, with which the variety is nearly synonymous, but also in Burgundy (its original, Old World home) and just about everywhere else in the winemaking...
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