Chardonnay Estate Reserve - Glenelly Estate

With the Glenelly Estate Chardonnay Estate Reserve comes a first-class white wine in the wine glass. Here it reveals a wonderfully bright, golden yellow color. If you swirl the wine glass, you can perceive a first-class balance in this white wine, because it stands out on the walls of the glass neither watery nor syrupy or liqueur-like. To the nose, this Glenelly Estate white wine shows all manner of cherry blossom, lavender, lime, rose and honeysuckle. As if that wasn't already impressive, the aging in small wooden barrels adds other aromas such as garrigue, walnut and juniper.

The Glenelly Estate Chardonnay Estate Reserve presents itself to the wine lover wonderfully dry. This white wine never shows itself coarse or meager, as one might expect from a premium and estate wine segment. On the tongue, this balanced white wine is characterized by an incredibly creamy texture. With balanced fruit acidity, the Chardonnay Estate Reserve flatters with a soft mouthfeel without lacking in juicy liveliness. The finale of this white wine with good aging potential from the wine-growing region Coastal Region, more precisely from Stellenbosch (ZA), finally thrills with considerable reverberation.

Vinification of the Glenelly Estate Chardonnay Estate Reserve

The basis for the balanced Chardonnay Estate Reserve from Coastal Region are grapes from the grape variety Chardonnay. After hand harvesting, the grapes are quickly taken to the press house. Here they are selected and carefully crushed. This is followed by fermentation in small wood at controlled temperatures. After the completion of fermentation, the Chardonnay Estate Reserve is aged for another 11 months in 500 l oak barrels.

Food recommendation for the Glenelly Estate Chardonnay Estate Reserve

Experience this white wine from South Africa best moderately chilled at 11 - 13°C as an accompanying wine to spinach gratin with almonds, cabbage roulades or arugula penne.

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