De Grendel Chardonnay Op Die Berg 2024 - De Grendel

A wooden Chardonnay goes well with slightly creamier dishes such as porcini mushroom risotto or butternut squash gnocchi with plenty of Gruyere cheese. If you want to enjoy something unusual, you can also serve fried arancini with goat cheese filling with this Chardonnay.

High on the Witzenberg, within easy reach of Ceres, at an altitude of 960 meters above sea level, this unique 'appellation' of South Africa, with a continental climate and frequent winter temperatures that drop below freezing point. The cooler nighttime temperatures and hotter daytime temperatures during the growing season result in slower ripening and more concentrated fruit. The well-drained, yellow slate soils are often covered with a layer of snow in winter, which provides the perfect conditions for the vines to germinate, an urgently needed period of rest and recovery before the growing season. The grapes are picked, sorted, destemmed and pressed by hand. After the turbidity has settled, the juice is inoculated with yeast strains and fermented in French oak barrels, 1/3 of which are new barrels and the other part is used as a second and third layer. The yeast is stirred regularly before and after malolactic fermentation. The wine was aged in oak barrels for a total of 6 months.

Allergy information: Contains sulfites