Earthborn Chardonnay

Pork, Rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), Vegetarian, Poultry

10 months in 225L French oak barrels.

Spontaneous and complete barrel fermentation with no additions, and subsequent ageing in specially selected French oak barrels sourced exclusively from Burgundian coopers, comprised part of the gentle, minimalist, noninterventionist winemaking approach employed after the excessive and induced “bludgeoning” that the black method entails. In this way we have crafted what we believe to be the most authentic wine interpretation of our terroir to date. A terroir we believe ideally suited to Chardonnay.

Hemel-en-Aarde is Afrikaans for “heaven and earth” and the claim is justified. Our estate sits on a particularly heavenly stretch of land beneath a lofty peak of the Babylon’s Tower mountain range. In addition to its unrelenting beauty Ataraxia is home to some of the most spectacular terroirs South Africa has to offer. In 2004 The Skyfields Farm was visioned into the Ataraxia wine label when husband and wife Kevin and Hanli Grant and a few friends purchased this 47-hectare prime vineyard property. More than a decade later we are associated with crafting wines of incredible finesse balance and depth; wines that proudly hold their own on the international wine stage.