Reserve Chardonnay

Grilled salmon with lemon-butter sauce / roast chicken with herbs / creamy seafood pasta / butternut squash risotto / vegetable stir fry with ginger or soy sauce / Camembert cheese

It was then racked and returned to barrel, where 80% of the wine was matured in new French oak for 26 months.

After de-stalking and crushing, the juice was allowed to settle and then transferred to 400L French oak barrels for primaryand malolactic fermentation. The wine was left in barrel on the fine lees, with regular batonage to enhance the mouthfeel and richness.

Klein Simonsvlei, the home of Niel Joubert Wines lies on the slopes of the Simonsberg mountain, on the outskirts of Paarl in the Western Cape Winelands. A large wine and fruit farm it has spectacular scenery, which includes five hills and ten dams fed from a natural mountain spring. There is abundant water and enough land diversity to accommodate the successful growing of apples, pears, peaches, plums, naartjies, lemons and blueberries, in addition to grapes. It has been owned since 1898 by the Joubert family, horticulturalists and grape growers by training, and is still run hands-on by individual family members, now in the 5th generation. Such was their commitment to quality production, as well as the pride in their achievements, that the wine range was renamed Niel Joubert wines in 1994, in honour of 3rd generation patriarch, father of current owner/general manager Daan