Estate Chardonnay

The ideal wine to drink with tapenade or a Niçoise salad, a paella or grilled chicken, fish or lamb with herbs.

2017 was a cool dry year with long winter nights. This ensured a longer ripening which adds to the minerality and finesse to this vintage. The drought caused the vine to push its roots deeper in search for water which will be an overall benefit to the future.

This wine was Fermented in 35% new French oak barrels and 65% in Stainless Steel tanks. After 9 months the wine was blended and fined for bottling.

Grapes where picked at optimum ripeness, after which they were destemmed and pressed. The juice was settled for 48 hours at 10˚C and then racked off the lees to selected French oak barrels.

The 27 hectare wine estate from the Dutch entrepreneurial couple Marianne & Fons Aaldering, no strangers to the travel catering industry as founders of MarFo and Delta Dailyfood, is located in picture-perfect Stellenbosch South Africa and boasts a unique and special microclimate which results in flourishing vines producing top-quality grapes. Aaldering Vineyards & Wines is very happy to embrace Pinotage at the Aaldering Estate, by virtue of the sense of proud of South Africa and its varietal. The perfect terroir to cultivate top quality fruit and to aim for preserving the intrinsic quality of the grapes into the bottle makes it that Aaldering takes part in the cult revolution of top quality Pinotage wines. The treasure that you will find in Aaldering wine is the dazzling fruit expression, with finesse and elegance.