Reserve Chardonnay

Serve this wine with grilled, lightly spiced chicken and duck, grilled fish with lemonbutter or hollandaise sauce, or a classic beurre blanc sauce using this wine as an ingredient. Enjoy with soft, ripe Brie or Camembert cheese, hard cheeses like Grana Padano or South Africa’s classic.

With an ideal Mediterranean microclimate, an abundance of soil diversity and water from the life-giving Breede River, the Alvi’s Drift vineyards are ideally positioned for producing remarkable wines of unique character and complexity.

Optimally ripe grapes, hand-picked in the cool early morning hours are pressed, with preference given to free-run juice. Thereafter, wild-yeast fermentation is started in tank. A portion of the juice is fermented in tank, while the remainder completes fermentation in barrels. Trademark fresh and optimally ripe fruit characters are beautifully showcased by tank fermentation, while the barrel fermented juice adds beautiful complexity.

Alvi’s Drift is a third-generation, family-owned winery in South Africa’s Breede River Valley. Named after the bridge connecting the farm, our 410-hectare estate lies in the cool-climate Scherpenheuvel ward, where diverse soils shape our award-winning wines. From crisp whites to elegant reds, MCCs, and sparkling wines, each bottle reflects a love for craft and terroir. Led by winemaker Alvi van der Merwe, we blend tradition with innovation—doing more than expected, because we’re doing what we love.