Mooiplaas Houmoed Single Vineyard Chenin Blanc 2009

Grapes in excellent health, wild fermentation. Wine shows bee's wax/dried peach on the nose, along with almonds/marzipan from the barrels, good weight on the palate with some minerality and a long finish.Fruit and oak well balanced, a big wine with the typical wonderful mouthfeel of ripe Chenin.


variety : Chenin Blanc [ 100% Chenin Blanc ]
winery : Mooiplaas Estate
winemaker : Louis Roos
wine of origin : Bottelary Hills
analysis : alc : 14 % vol  pH : 3.37  ta : 7.41 g/l  
type : White  
pack : Bottle  closure : Cork  

AWARDS
Platter 4 stars
Michelangelo 2011 Grand D'Or (Double Gold)
in the vineyard : Grapes from the Houmoed Single Vineyard, 2 ha in size, planted (by NJ Roos ) in 1972 on Richter 99, dry land bush vine, at 280 m above sea level on a western slope of the Bottelary Hills.
Soil Types: Glenrosa / Cartreff / Oakleaf
Training Method: Bush vines

about the harvest: Harvested on the 9th March 2009 at 25.9° Balling

in the cellar : Grapes in excellent condition, 7 - 24 hours skin contact, juice cleaned by settling, allowed to ferment spontaneously with wild yeast. Left in barrel on lees for 9 months, no stabilisation, unfiltered until the final filtration prior to bottling.

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