Vergelegen Wines : Current Vintages

	CHARDONNAY RESERVE 2008
	The wine shows an attractive lemony yellow-green colour with a complex nose of citrus, vanilla, butterscotch, tropical fruit and mineral tones. On the palate the taste is long and full with no excessive wooding. Complex, powerful yet still elegant. Enjoy with shellfish and poultry. Vyd on lower Schaapenberg, delivering full-bodied fruit core & mineral finish, Bunch pressed, native –fermented /yr matured in new oak. 04 wears this oak well; it’s elegant & restrained, hinting orange fruit, almost light in feeling, subtly forceful & quietly commanding [John Platter]
	AWARDS
	International Wine & Spirit Competition 2008 : Silver John Platter Guide 2008 : 4.5 Stars
	Vinification
	Whole-bunch pressed, with no skin contact. The juice was clarified to 220 NTU’s (quite turbid) and then racked into 50% new French barrels (Francois Frére and Dargaud & Jaegle) and 50% second-fill barrels for alcoholic fermentation. No cultured yeasts are used. The wine was matured on the lees for 12 months with regular batonage.
	Analysis
	Alc: 14.5% RS: 2.2g/l TA: 5.8g/l pH: 3.19
	Maturation
	Drink over the next five years.