Clay Shales Chardonnay

Perfect with light and delicate food such as raw and lightly cooked shellfish like crab and prawns.

The Clay Shales is a single vineyard, a site over 300m high from the Hemel en aarde Ridge ward.

The wine was left for 10 months on gross lees before bottling. Only 2nd and 3rd fill barrels used.

Whole bunch pressed, where the juice was settled overnight and sent to barrel where fermentation took place.

Crystallum is a family-run and privately-owned winery based in the Walker Bay region of South Africa. Brothers Andrew and Peter-Allan are the third generation of Finlayson winemakers and sons of the man who pioneered Pinot Noir winemaking in the Hemel-en-Aarde region. Andrew is an architect by training and Peter-Allan a student of philosophy and economics but it didn’t take long for the lure of wine to take effect with Andrew drawn to the vineyards and Peter-Allan to the cellar. The company was founded in 2007 when it produced just over four thousand bottles of Sauvignon Blanc. The following vintage saw the introduction of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay and Crystallum now produces these Burgundian varieties exclusively making up its collection with multi-vineyard blends and single-vineyard wines.