Joostenberg Wines - SWEET Chenin Blanc Noble Late Harvest HALF BOTTLE 375ML 2023 (13.0% abv)

desert wine, half bottle, late harvest Chenin Blanc

The wine has a beautiful golden straw colour. The nose & palate are characterized by wax, apricot, pineapple, marmalade and honey comb flavours. There is plenty of sweetness and the finish is marked by lingering (not piercing) acidity

100% Chenin Blanc

only made in top vintages

157g RS / L
32 year old dry farmed vines on decomposed granite and clay shale
Hand harvested over several pickings over 1 month
Whole bunch pressed and fermented with indigenous yeast until fermentation stopped on its own
Fermentation and maturation occurred in oak barrels, 6% new
Aged for 6 months in barrels

- Dry-farmed vineyard planted in 1989 (35 years old).
- East facing at 180m altitude and 27km from the coast.
- Soil is a combination of granite and clay shale.
The “noble rot” infections were sporadic and it took several pickings to capture the golden essence.
- 6 Pickings.
- The first picking was on the 27th of March and the last one on the
3rd of May.
VINIFICATION
Grapes were “whole-bunch” pressed and the resulting juice was fermented in seasoned, oak barrels, using natural yeast. Fermentation was allowed to carry on until it stopped on its own accord. The wine spent 8 months in these barrels before being bottled.

cert sustainable, prac organic

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