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January 27, 2012

Simonsig Chardonnay

Price: £12.38

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The 1978 Simonsig Chardonnay was the first wine of this variety to be bottled in South Africa. Over the years new plantings of the best available virus free clones were planted on the bet vineyard sites available on the Estate. These mature vineyards provide excellent quality grapes for our flagship white wine. Full ripe grapes are harvested to get optimal flavour development. The juice is 100% barrel fermented in French Oak barrels with about 40% oak. Malolactic in inoculated on a quarter of the wine and battonage (lees stirring) is done on all the barrels to enhance the buttery characters. The aim is to allow the primary Chardonnay varietal flavours to dominate rather than the buttery character. Wood maturation lasts for 9 months before bottling.

The cool climatic conditions favoured the development of fruit flavours especially for the white wines. The natural acidities were also higher than normal adding to the zesty freshness and liveliness of the white wines.

Product ref : sa8012

Price: £12.38 inc VAT

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Grape : Chardonnay
Origin : South Africa

Genre : White Wine

Category : 1 bottle

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Simonsig Chardonnay

Grapes:
Chardonnay 100%

Analysis:
Alcohol: 13.2% vol
Residual Sugar: 1.9g/l
Total Acidity: 6.6g/l
pH: 3.3

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