ICON Range
The Icon range reflects our obsession with quality – high risk viticulture techniques blended with high risk wine making make these wines some of the best you will find in this country – there is NO stone left unturned to produce this quality and we are willing to take any risk needed to produce these Iconic wines.
This wine is packed with freshness and hints of minerality, enriched with crisp, ripe pears, honeysuckle, orange peel, apples and honey.
Winemaker’s Description:
This wine is packed with freshness and hints of minerality, enriched with crisp, ripe pears, honeysuckle, orange peel, apples and honey. The palate is linear and features a tight minerality, with a creamy, fruity finish of great length.
The aim during picking and Vinification was to create a wine of freshness and elegance, without any overripe or overbearing flavours. The oak is well integrated and provides the perfect structure for the fruit components of the wine.
Maturation potential:
This wine is drinking well right now but also shows exceptional ageing potential of up to 10 years after vintage. Enjoy with lightly grilled salmon, roast fowl, a creamy curry or just on its own.
Eikendal Chardonnay 2015 (6/case) (R144/BOTTLE)
Cultivar: Chardonnay
Vinification:The grapes were hand picked in three stages, ranging from 19.5°B to 23°B. The lot that was picked first, provided us with desired freshness and acidity, whilst the riper lots imparted fresh citrus fruit, structure and creaminess to the wine. The grapes are cooled down to 1°C for one day before whole bunch pressing. After fermentation, the wine was aged for 12 months in 15% new, 500L French oak barrels, custom-made by Frenchman Bruno Lorenzon, with the balance 2nd and 3rd fill.
The barrel ageing process happened with minimum intervention and batonage, to preserve and harness the delicate characteristics of the wine.
Wine analysis:Sugar: 3.2 g/l Total acid: 6.9 g/l pH: 3.30 Alcohol: 13.00 vol.%
Winemaker’s Description:This wine is packed with freshness and hints of minerality, enriched with crisp, ripe pears, honeysuckle, orange peel, apples and honey. The palate is linear and features a tight minerality, with a creamy, fruity finish of great length.
The aim during picking and Vinification was to create a wine of freshness and elegance, without any overripe or overbearing flavours. The oak is well integrated and provides the perfect structure for the fruit components of the wine.
Maturation potential:This wine is drinking well right now but also shows exceptional ageing potential of up to 10 years after vintage. Enjoy with lightly grilled salmon, roast fowl, a creamy curry or just on its own.
Serving Temperature:12oC - 14oC in smaller white wine glasses.