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Limited Release Viognier 2018

The wine is perfumed with wonderful exotic aromas of jasmine, lavender, grapefruit, hints dried apricot and white peach that balms the air. The pallet is filled with quince flavours complemented with hints of creamy lemon butter, nutmeg, ginger and vanilla. The wine has a flinty mineral finish and well balanced linear acidity.

This Viognier does well with all things surrounding the orient such as Indian korma and other mild to medium aromatic curries, breyani, traditional South African bobotie and pickled fish. It has a particular affinity with rosemary, so much so that you could manipulate almost any dish by adding sufficient rosemary.
variety : Viognier [ 100% Viognier ]
winemaker : Hannes Nel
wine of origin : Stellenbosch
analysis : alc : 14.5 % vol  rs : 2.6 g/l  pH : 3.38  ta : 7.2 g/l  
type : White  style : Dry  body : Full  taste : Fragrant   wooded
pack : Bottle  size : 750ml  closure : Cork  

ageing : This vintage can be enjoyed up to 2023 but will reach its best drinking time towards the end 2020 and will possibly peak only towards the end 2021.
in the vineyard : Altitude: 140m above sea level, and 8km from the cool sea breezes of False Bay
Age of vines: 19 Years
Rootstock: 101-14 Mgt
Clones: VI642
Slopes: Situated on the valley floor
Row direction: South-East to North-West
Soil type: Sweetwater soil
about the harvest: 

The preceding three years has been the driest in recorded history in the South African Wine producing regions. However, the hot, dry weather kept the vineyards largely disease and pest-free and while December and January were hot - hitting 35 °C at times - there were no intense heatwaves and the end of the growing season grew cooler, leading to better colour and flavour in later ripening varieties (especially reds). We experienced thunderstorms during the flowering season in November and a severe thunder and hail storm during harvest in February.

Thunder and lightning are full of nitrogen, which get deposited in the vines making them lush and green, in turn, that helped with the overall state of our vines and ripening in a very difficult and dry season. Due to our unique topography and high rainfall we had enough water for all the normal requirements of our vines during and after harvest. Due to the dry season the crop levels were a little bit less than normal, but our overall quality is deemed very high as much of the loss in overall volume was due to smaller berries and bunches which, conversely, should lead to a greater concentration of flavour and colour in the 2018 wines.
in the cellar : 100% fermented in wood of which 42% was new and a split of 16% Hungarian oak and 84% French oak. The wine spent 11 months in barrel on its primary lees, that was stirred up by rolling the barrels every 2 weeks.
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