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Bon Cap Chardonnay 2006

This Chardonnay was produced from a very young, single vineyard with clone 548 - a low yielding, small bunch, highly concentrated Chardonnay clone - this helps to balance with the new oak.  The wine displays a citrus and lime nose with dried peach and apricot as well as dried white pear and apple rings that follows onto a fresh creamy mouth-filling palate very well integrated with the oak component.

variety : Chardonnay [ 100% Chardonnay ]
winery : 
winemaker : Roelf du Preez
wine of origin : Eilandia, Robertson
analysis : alc : 14 % vol  rs : 3.2 g/l  pH : 3.45  ta : 6.6 g/l  so2 : 85 mg/l  fso2 : 30 mg/l  
type : White  body : Medium  taste : Fragrant   wooded organic
pack : Bottle  closure : Cork  
in the vineyard : 
Vineyard Information:
           
Planted      2003
Block No      A6
Block size      2ha
Yield      1 t/ha
Recoupement      650 l/t
about the harvest: 
Region:                    Robertson
Ward:                       Eilandia
Organic Certified:    SGS SA Org 2001 0074
Vintage:                  2006
Harvest Date:           02 February 2006
Harvest Details:   Hand picked at 24.2 degrees balling, de-stemmed and    lightly crushed to press, no skin contact to retain more fresh fruit.  Cold settled for 24 hours and then gravity fed to new 300 l French oak barrels. Each barrel was inoculated individually and cold fermented by cooling coils in each barrel. Only 30% MLF were done, “battonage” was done for 4 months; stabilisation and rough filtration followed the bottling.                               

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