Rhebokskloof Chardonnay Grande Reserve 2003

This full-bodied, complex wine has a balance of full fruit and new oak wood. It has buttery, vanilla flavours on the palate, full very up-front fruit together with a long, lingering after taste.

variety : Chardonnay [ 100% Chardonnay ]

winery : Rhebokskloof Wine Estate

winemaker : Daniel Langenhoven

wine of origin : Coastal

analysis : alc : 15.3 % vol rs : 2.84 g/l pH : 3.30 ta : 5.5 g/l so2 : 110 mg/l fso2 : 40 mg/l

type : White style : Dry body : Full taste : Fruity wooded

pack : Bottle

ageing : Drink now or within 5 years of bottling.

in the vineyard : Soil type: Palexeralf Hplic Palexeralf
Age: The vineyard was planted in 1990
Slope: The veinyard is laocted on a North-East facing slope

about the harvest: The grapes were hand-picked at 26Âº Balling, placed into bins and immediately transported to the cellar on 26 February 2003.

in the cellar : After being destalked, the skin and juice passed through the separators. Thereafter the juice was transferred to stainless steel tanks and inoculated with yeast. At 20Âº Balling the juice was pumped to new (first full) 225 Litre French oak barrels. The juice then continued to ferment in the barrels and thereafter it was inoculated with malolactic bacteria and underwent malolactic fermentation. The wine underwent complete malalactic fermentation in the barrels. Thereafter the wine remained in the barrel and for the first two months it was stirred once a week. For the following two months the wine was stirred once every four weeks. Thereafter the wine was left on the lees without SOÂ² until bottling in March 2004.

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