Glen Carlou

Quartz Stone Chardonnay

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

Chardonnay from Simonsberg-Paarl, South Africa

R455

Bottle size:

750 ml

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Glen Carlou

‘Our 100% Single Vineyard Chardonnay is abundant with complex aromas of citrus, white peach, fragrant spices and buttered toast. Tantalising and distinctive lime and lemon, green apple and peach stone fruit notes evolve on the mid-palate, which follow through to an extended aftertaste. Evoking its quartz soil identity, the discreet mid palate minerality lends a further dimension to a captivating wine. (Johnnie Calitz - Cellarmaster)’

Citrus

White Peach

Buttered Toast

Green Apple

Hand-picked, hand sorted and whole-bunch pressed only the first 55% of gentle free run juice is used. The juice settled and fermented naturally of which 90% was in all new French Oak barriques and 10% in a designated Quartz Stone Nomblot egg shaped tank. Left on gross lees for 12 months, a selection was then made of individual barrels for clarification and ultimately to be bottled as Quartz Stone. Sealed with a hand selected premium grade natural cork offering a zero taint guarantee.

Bunches are hand harvested in the coolness of morning, for the preservation of the fruit’s natural complexity and character. In addition to climate and aspect, soil structure unquestionably defines a region’s terroir and this is a feature of our Quartz Stone single vineyard. The granite based soil mixed with pieces of quartz, yields grapes off the low-yielding 35 year old vineyard on the northern foothills of the Simonsberg.

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.