Mrs. English Single Vineyard Chardonnay

This wine pairs beautifully with smoked salmon, white fish, pork or chicken and creamy pasta dishes.

The Chardonnay grapes for the Mrs. English comes froma single vineyard 0.78 hectares in size and 375 meters above sea level. In 2018 the age of the vines were 23 years old and the yield of the crop was 7 tons/ha. All harvesting and pruning are done by hand to ensure that only healthy grapes are picked whilst extra care is taken not to damage to bunches.

40% New, 40% 2nd fill and 20% third fill barrels were used for Mrs English. The wine was sulphured then left to mature in barrels for 11 months with battonage taking place every week.

The grapes were picked between 22.5-23 °Balling with whole bunches crushed without prior destemming to ensure a prominent fruit character and well-rounded wine. After pressing, the juice settles ina stainless-steel tank for 48 hours and at 12-14 ° Celsius before the clear juice was racked tot French Oak barrels. Each barrel was inoculated with a different yeast strain. A third of the wine was fermented with natural yeasts to ensure a 'softer" wine with complexity.

Lanzerac Wine Estate, home to the world’s first bottled Pinotage and one of the oldest heritage farms in the Western Cape dating back to 1692, has been cultivating award-winning wines for decades. Nestled in the Jonkershoek Valley between the majestic Stellenbosch mountains, this historic Estate’s rich winemaking history can be traced back to the early 1900s, when the first Lanzerac wine was bottled from grapes harvested on the farm. Since then, Lanzerac Wine Estate has cemented itself as a distinguished wine producer with a commitment to superior quality wines both internationally and locally. The year 1925 saw Professor Abraham Izak Perold, the first Professor of Viticulture at the University of Stellenbosch, successfully cross two grape varietals, Pinot Noir and Hermitage (Cinsaut), to create South Africa’s first unique and indigenous wine grape variety – Pinotage. Several years later, Lanzerac Wine Estate became the first winery in the world to use the term ‘Pinotage’ on their label when they marketed the 1959 vintage under the name ‘Lanzerac’. This visionary release marked the birth of Pinotage as a unique variety from South Africa. To this day, Lanzerac Wine Estate, under the leadership of Cellar Master, Wynand Lategan and Viticulturist Danie Malherbe, is still producing award-winning Pinotage, along with a wide variety of other excellent quality wines that form part of Lanzerac’s three tiers – the Premium Range, Heritage Range and Keldermeester Versameling (Cellar Master Collection).