Chenin d'Muscat Noble Late Harvest 2024 - Stellenrust

Goes well with desserts but goes great with baked Naartjie baskets filled with ice cream and topped with a caramel dressing.

Our noble late harvest is based on a winemaking heritage that continues today, with strong family winemaking traditions being continued in every bottle of Chenin d' Muscat. This natural sweet wine is the only wine that still bears the original 1928 label. The vines are on our Bottelary property. It is a mix of over 50-year-old Chenin Blanc bush vines and over 70-year-old Muscat de Alexandrie trellis vines. The grapes may become infected with Botrytis before harvesting. For this reason, Muscat is only harvested in May after the first winter rains, where the harvest usually ends at the end of March in Stellenbosch. The grapes are crushed and a certain skin contact is allowed for extraction. The juice is filled directly into barrels and fermented naturally over a period of 2 to 3 weeks. Chenin Blanc and Muscat ferment separately and the wine is blended after 12 months in barrel.

Allergy information: Contains sulfites