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Radford Dale Chardonnay (2017)
Restraining acidity citrus flavours and invisible integrated oaking the introverted side of its character. Ripeness and great persistence on the palate the more expansive side. Genuinely mineral with a crisp lime-citrus edge and an elegant yet intense durability. A Chardonnay striving to be individual focused on backbone not brawn. Alc: 11.5%, TA: 7 5 g/L, pH: 3.3 RS: 2.1 g/L
Original price was: kr249.kr199Current price is: kr199.
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In The Vineyard
In The Cellar
Paring Suggestions
In The Vineyard
Fruit from two exceptional, ocean facing sites on the foothills of the Helderberg is used for this Chardonnay. With the vines now 25 years old, the wine that these vines produce shows the typical intensity that one can expect from mature Chardonnay vineyards. The crunchy, granite derived soil type (Clovelly) imparts a lovely, flinty minerality to the wine and proximity to sea means the wine naturally possesses a bracing freshness.
In The Cellar
The grapes were all hand-picked at dawn into small lug-bins, chilled in our white wine cellar, then hand-fed over a sorting table. Whole bunch pressed, with the free-run juice settled for two days before being gravity-fed into barrel. Alcoholic fermentation entirely carried out in barrel (only using natural ambient yeast) for 8–10 weeks. Cellar maintained very cold at about 10° Celsius (fermentation peaking at about 18°), then temperature dropped to 7°. Battonnage was applied monthly only during the first 2 months. Racked out of barrel after 9 months, assembled and settled with a light bentonite fining and no filtration until bottling at the beginning of December 2016.
Paring Suggestions
Salmon with roasted shiitakes and mushroom sauce, poultry, seafood or vegetarian dishes
