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AA Badenhorst Family White Blend 2011

Every vintage of Family White will be a different blend as we discover new amazing parcels of fruit or refine the final blend.

We feel that Chenin Blanc is best suited to be the heart of the blend and that is why it forms the biggest portion of the blend. The aromas are very complex and change considerably in the glass. Perfume, spice, tea, stone fruit and citrus blossoms are some of the notes that can be detected. In the mouth the texture and ripeness and gentle tannins result in a wine that has incredible length and complex flavour profile. The wine also has wonderful fruit volume characterised by stone fruit and mineral flavours. The finish is long and has slight phenolic edges supporting the fruit through the entire length of the wine.

variety : Chenin Blanc [ 29% Chenin Blanc, 23% Roussanne, 10% Grenache, 11% Viognier, 2% Verdehlo, 11% Chardonnay, 5% Colombard, 5% Grenache Gris, 2% Semillon, 2% Clairette Blance ]
winemaker : Adi Badenhorst
wine of origin : 
analysis : 
type : White  style : Dry  body : Full  taste : Fragrant   wooded
pack : Bottle  size : 750ml  closure : Cork  
in the vineyard : Vineyards and vines: Small parcels of selected fruit is sourced from various vineyards on our farm Kalmoesfontein, the Swartland area and the greater Paardeberg mountain.
about the harvest: Picking started in the first week February and ended on the 25th March ( we had to wait a while for out 500kg of Clairette Blanche!).
in the cellar : 1                              Vinification: All the grapes are cooled overnight and then whole bunch pressed the following day. The free run juice was run off directly into old casks and small concrete tank for a lengthy and nervous (for the winemaker, great for the wine) natural fermentation. The various varietals are blended early during the pressing if they happen to be harvested on the same day otherwise they are blended after 13months in casks.

Maturation: We only use old 500L and 600L casks for the fermentation and maturation of 13 months. After this the wines are racked and blended together in a single concrete tank with all their lees and left for another 6 - 8 months months before bottling.

8200 bottles produced.
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AA Badenhorst Family White Blend 2011
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