Chardonnay

Pairs beautifully with creamy dishes, mushroom risotto, rich fish dishes, or steak béarnaise.

The grapes are grown on the slopes of the Simonsberg Mountain in the Western Cape, between the wine regions of Franschhoek, Stellenbosch, and Paarl. The soils are primarily of Malmesbury shale origin.

This wine is ready to drink now but has excellent aging potential for the next 4–6 years.

The grapes are whole-bunch pressed, and fermentation starts in stainless steel before being transferred to French oak barrels (40% new, 60% second fill). The wine is aged on the lees for a total of 11 months, with regular batonnage.

Babylonstoren is one of the oldest Cape Dutch farms, set at the foot of Simonberg in the Franschhoek wine valley. It has a fruit and vegetable garden of beauty and diversity, unique accommodation, fine food and wine, and evokes a sense of wellbeing. Our wines are produced in a state-of-the-art winery and are made to showcase the soils and climate where their grapes are grown. The Tasting Room sits adjacent to the Wine Cellar, offering views of the conical Babylonstoren hill, Simonsberg and the Banghoek Mountains. We have about 94 hectares (232 acres) under vine and produce 13 different grape varieties, with our highest vines – pinot noir and chardonnay – lying against Simonsberg at some 600 metres above sea level. Led by cellar master Charl Coetzee and winemaker Klaas Stoffberg, the farm’s 2011 harvest led to the first bottling of wine under the Babylonstoren label.