Kleine Zalze Chardonnay Family Reserve 2023 - Kleine Zalze Wines
91James Suckling
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CHF29.95
CHF3.99/10cl
21.05.2026
3% quantity discount for orders over 24 bottles
About the wine
The 2023 Kleine Zalze Chardonnay Family Reserve offers a fresh, smooth white wine experience with just a touch of fruit and a lovely texture. It’s an easy-going choice for casual hangouts or relaxed dinners, perfect when you want something tasty without fuss. Enjoy a wine that’s all about good times and good company.
James Suckling: 91/100
Item no. 1221059
Item no. 1221059
Tasting note
The dynamic approach is promoted by combining French oak and terracotta amphoras for fermentation and maturation. This gives the opportunity to expose the wine to the best of two worlds: French oak barrels, which allow a broad and impressive expression of the primary fruit, and amphoras for vivacity and freshness and texture. The first-class Chardonnay fruit thrives in an innovative environment that releases complex dimensions that make it possible to focus on the blue-flowered family tree of the world's most famous white wine.
Culinary recommendation
Serve this wine with a creamy porcini risotto or spaghetti cabonara.
Vinification
The Kleine Zalze Family Reserve Chardonnay 2023 is pressed from two plots of vineyards in Stellenbosch, which reflect the diversity of the terroir in the Cape's most famous appellation. One part comes from Banghoek, while the other part is grown in the Sir Lowry's Pass region in Somerset-West. The inclusion of Chardonnay in the top Family Reserve category underlines the status of Kleine Zalze's entire wine portfolio, as this wine is an excellent example of the world-class Chardonnays that South Africa and Stellenbosch in particular have to offer. The various blocks used to produce this wine were harvested separately by hand at a maturity level of between 21° and 23° Qechsle. Some of the grapes were destemmed and pressed, and the resulting juice was in skin contact for 12 to 18 hours before settling. The other part was pressed whole to maintain optimal freshness and give the wine refinement and elegance. After a settling period of one day, the slightly cloudy juice was transferred to a stainless steel tank, where it was inoculated with selected slowly fermenting yeast strains. The juice was then immediately transferred by gravity into new 400-liter French oak barrels and 500-liter Italian terracotta barrels, where it sat on the yeast for eight months. The Chardonnay was bottled without fining filtration.
More information
Allergy information: Contains sulfites
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