Newton Johnson

Southend Chardonnay

Name: Walker bay Pinot Noir
Brand: Newton Johnson
Price: 339 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Rating: Tim Atkin 89 (1 reviews)

Chardonnay from Hemel En Aarde Valley, South Africa

R279

Bottle size:

750 ml

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The 2023 Southend Chardonnay offers a high-toned, rapier-like lime fruit profile, buoyed with sharp ginger, white pepper, and flint. The palate reveals crushed stones and saltiness, sustaining a refreshing appeal. It presents good weight of flavor in the mid-palate, boosted with bright acidity and a grippy texture.

Lime

Ginger

White Pepper

Flint Stones

Grapes are handpicked and packed into small, shallow crates to limit crushing of the bunches. The day's harvest is cooled down overnight to 8ºC in the winery's refrigerated cold room. The grape bunches are hand-sorted on a conveyor table and fall directly to the press for whole bunch pressing. The best quality juice (approximately 40% of the press yield) is drained directly to barrel, with the balance settled by temperature only (no enzyme used) and racked the next day to barrel for spontaneous fermentation. No sulfur is used in the winemaking, allowing diverse micro-organisms from the grape itself to flourish unrestrained in the fermentation.

The wine is matured for 11 months in mostly puncheon (500L) and some barrique (228L) barrels produced in Burgundy. Tighter grained oak is preferred for subtle flavor, with longer seasoning and slower, lower temperature toasting. New oak comprises 9% of the final blend. The wine is then blended and kept for further élevage of 5 months in stainless steel. No fining, coarse filtration, and sulfur adjustment before bottling.

Newton Johnson

Newton Johnson Vineyards is owned and managed by the Newton Johnson family. The farm is based in the upper Hemel en Aarde Valley near the seaside town of Hermanus an hour and a half’s drive out of Cape Town. This is a popular tourist destination famous for some of the most spectacular land-based whale watching in the world lush indigenous fynbos a floral kingdom home to 1500 species and exclusive to the Cape mountain walks and bike trails. Led by Dave a Cape Wine Master with a thesis on Pinot Noir and his wife Felicity (nee Newton) the Newton Johnson family moved to the Upper Hemel en Aarde Valley in 1995 built a cellar and started planting vines shortly thereafter. This enthusiasm for wine and Pinot noir in particular was passed on to and eagerly adopted by his sons Bevan and Gordon. They in turn have taken this family cellar and vineyards to new heights in exploring the nuances of this grape and their vineyards.