Technical Specifications
Alcohol 12.8%
Residual Sugar 1.7 g/L
pH 3.27
Total Acidity 6.4 g/L
Calories (estimated) 105 kcal / glass
150ml glass105 kcal
750ml bottle525 kcal
Grape Varieties Chenin Blanc
Chenin Blanc100%
Region Swartland
Soil Granite
Vine Age 38 year old vineyard
Fermentation Vessels Old Oak Barrels
Natural Yeast Yes
Production Details The 2017 vintage saw the Western Cape very much in the grip of a long drought, with very little moisture reserves in the soils. The Paardeberg is challenging in the best of years, and we had to pay a lot of attention to ensure that we could harvest ripe, healthy grapes with sufficient acidity. Our key focus during harvest is picking times. If we can pick grapes at the right time, we can achieve tension and ripeness in the wine without the need to manipulate and “dress-up the wines.” Chenin blanc on granite is something that we have worked with for all the years that we have been making our Thorne and Daughters wines, and this is our first single vineyard bottling. The delicacy and concentration of the Langkloof Chenin blanc in 2017 made for a very compelling wine and we felt that it really deserved its own bottling. As with all of our wines, the winemaking is incredibly simple, as we have no desire to stand between the vineyard and its expression as a wine in the glass. The grapes are whole-bunch pressed in an old basket press and there are no additions of sulphur dioxide made to the juice. A rough settling follows, pressing after which the wine undergoes natural alcoholic and malolactic fermentation in old oak barrels. We add some sulphur dioxide late in the winter, and then again at bottling, keeping the level of sulphur dioxide as low as possible.
Tasting Notes
Nose: white currents, wax, sweet herbs
Palate: fresh, mineral, fennel bulb, nut flesh
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John and Tasha Seccombe
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John Seccombe