Family Reserve Chardonnay

Seafood, Poultry, Cheeses, Creamy pasta, salads.

The wine spent an extra 8 months on the lees in the respective fermentation vessels, the resulting blend consists of 50% barrel, 20% amphora, and 30% concrete egg fermented wine with no fining or filtration before bottling.

The different blocks used to create this wine were hand harvested separately between 21 and 23°balling. One portion was destemmed and crushed; the resulting juice given 12 -18 hours skin contact prior to settling. Another portion was whole bunch pressed to retain freshness and lend elegance to the resulting wine. After only 1 day of settling, the slightly turbid juice was racked off its gross lees to a stainless-steel tank where it was inoculated with selected slow fermenting yeast strains. The juice was then gravity fed into new 400L French oak barrels and 500L Italian Terracotta Amphorae, and concrete eggs.

Kleine Zalze wines are marked by a classical structure and complexity matched by a vibrant flavour intensity. Discernibly South African in style, they are refreshing, beautifully balanced and well-suited to food. Our wines are made according to traditional methods with minimal cellar intervention, but supported by modern equipment.