A delicious blend with aromas of ripe peaches, golden delicious apples and hints of citrus. Packed with flavour on the palate, this wine wine is a real crowd pleaser.
Maturation
Great now, and will improve for 3 years.
Food Pairing
Particularly good with seafood and flavourful chicken dishes.
Thelema Mountain White 2014 (6/case) (R69/BOTTLE)
A delicious blend with aromas of ripe peaches, golden delicious apples and hints of citrus. Packed with flavour on the palate, this wine wine is a real crowd pleaser.
MATURATIONGreat now, and will improve for 3 years.
FOOD PAIRINGParticularly good with seafood and flavourful chicken dishes.
VITICULTURAL PRACTICESVarietals: Chardonnay / Viognier / Roussanne
Root stock: 101-14
Soil type: Tukulu / Glenrosa
Age of vines: Planted 2005, 2006
Plant density: 2500 vines/ha
Trellising: 7 wire Perold with moveable foliage wires
Pruning: Spur
Irrigation: Supplementary drip
Vintage: 2014
WINEMAKING PRACTICESYeasts: Lalvin M / D522
Fermentation temp. 15 °C
Method: Alcoholic and malolactic fermentation in old white wine barrels. Aged for 10 months on gross lees with the lees being stirred every fortnight for the first couple of months.
WINE DETAILSResidual sugar 2.3 g/l
pH 3.30
Total acid 6.3 g/l
Alcohol 14.0%
Blend
Chardonnay 37% / Viognier 35% / Roussanne 28%
Maturation
2016 - 2019
WINEMAKER'S COMMENTSA delicious blend with aromas of ripe peaches, creamy golden delicious apples and hints of citrus. Packed with flavour on the palate, this wine wine is a real crowd pleaser.