Darling Cellars Reserve Quercus Gold Chardonnay 2023

An array of white pears, pineapple and lemon are the flavours on the nose that will follow through on the palate. A fruitful wine with a good mid palate, that ends off with a zesty lemon finish.

This wine is the perfect companion with a gourmet chicken salad or Indian curry dish. Will also pair well with fish and seafood.

variety : Chardonnay [ 100% Chardonnay ]
winery : Darling Cellars
winemaker : Pieter-Niel Rossouw, Bertrum Titus
wine of origin : Darling
analysis : alc : 13.38 % vol  rs : 1.93 g/l  pH : 3.38  ta : 6.45 g/l  so2 : 150 mg/l  fso2 : 45 mg/l  
type : White  style : Dry  body : Light  taste : Fruity   wooded
pack : Bottle  size : 750ml  closure : Screwcap  

Darling Cellars Reserve is a wine range of straight varietals where the focus is on fruit-driven, varietal true, value-for-money wines. The grapes were harvested from dryland farmed vineyards in Darling, where the vines are not trellised and planted as bush vines.

in the vineyard : 

Terroir: Deep, decomposed granite soils on the slopes of the Darling Hills, with a cooling effect in the warm afternoons from the Atlantic Ocean in close proximity.

about the harvest: 

Yield: 9t/ha
Balling at Harvest: 23°B

in the cellar : 

Destalk and crush, 15 days fermentation
Maturation: Kept on light lees for 3 months for fuller mouth feel and complexity. 100% of wine in wood for 3 months.

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