Glen Carlou

Merlot

Name: Chardonnay
Brand: Glen Carlou
Price: 189 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Rating: Tim Atkin 91 (1 reviews)

Merlot from Simonsberg-Paarl, South Africa

R189

Bottle size:

750 ml

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Shipping: R110 nationwide

Delivery is within 1–2 business days to main centres and 3–4 business days to outlying areas.

Fulfilled by

Norman Goodfellows and shipped from the following warehouse(s):

CPT: 34 JHB: 60+ DBN: 34

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧? Please note that to qualify for the prize draw, your purchase must be made through Norman Goodfellows. Any orders placed via Port2Port will not be eligible for entry. Thank you for your support and good luck if you’re entering! A complex but elegant medium-bodied wine, showing fresh red berries and cinnamon on the nose. Raspberries, sweet cherries and subtle hints of mint and vanilla unfold throughout the layered mouthfeel. The aftertaste reveals juicy blackberry on the palate, balanced by notes of plums, cassis and a subtle earthiness, with rounded acidity on a silky mid-palate

Cinnnamon

Raspberry

Vanilla

Plum

The grapes were hand sorted, destemmed and transferred into 7 ton steel tanks, kept whole-berry as far as possible. Pump overs were done during fermentation, after which extended skin contact followed for between 7-10 days. Before being blended, bottled and labelled the wine was matured in seasoned 225 litre French oak barriques for 14 months in which the malolactic fermentation was also completed.

Glen Carlou

Glen Carlou Vineyards is minutes away from the university town of Stellenbosch and less than 35 minutes’ drive from Cape Town. Situated in the Simonsberg-Paarl region of South Africa’s Western Cape, our estate was transformed from being a dairy farm in 1985 to a wine farm. Walter Finlayson acquired the property known as ‘Len Carlou’. He not only enhanced the name but with his affinity for Burgundian wines, the first vine plantings were those of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. After a 13-year period of ownership by the Swiss based Hess Group, Glen Carlou transferred back to local ownership in 2016 when a South African family consortium purchased the estate.