Quoin Rock

Chardonnay

Name: Vine Dried
Brand: Quoin Rock
Price: 900 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Rating: Winemag.co.za 90 (1 reviews)

Chardonnay from Western Cape, South Africa

R489

Bottle size:

750 ml

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This elegant Chardonnay presents you with ripe citrus, orange peel, well-integrated vanilla oak, creamy butterscotch and toasted brioche on the nose. On the palate, the wine’s luxurious sweet citrus and yellow fruit (from Stellenbosch), provides a good weight and freshness, which, combined with its distinctive fresh acidity and salinity (from Agulhas) gives a lingering texture that ensures a smooth and well balanced finish.

Vanilla

Orange Peel

Citrus

Brioche

We add the bunches to the press by hand as this ensures the integrity of the skins and minimises enzyme activity. After our specialised whole-bunch pressing programme, the must settles overnight before we rack it to its various fermentation vessels. No stone is left unturned with the making of this wine – to build complexity with an abundance of blends, we use stainless steel tanks, concrete eggs and 500-litre French oak barrels with 40 to 50% new French oak.

Quoin Rock Chardonnay is produced from the grapes of two of our farms, one in the Cape Agulhas (Elim) region and the other against Simonsberg in Stellenbosch. The Elim soils are mostly Bokkeveld, Koffieklip and Gravel, whereas the Stellenbosch soils are Oakleaf formed from decomposed granite with colluvial sandstone, gravel and friable granite. At harvest time, we handpick small lots of bunches early in the morning to ensure that the grapes are fresh when they get to the cellar.

Quoin Rock

The name Quoin Rock found its inspiration from the Agulhas area the most southern tip of Africa where Quoin Point is the second most southernly point and where Quoin Rock Wines’ conservation farm Boskloof is located. Ships rounding the cape on their way back from or to markets in the east from the mid-1400’s to these modern times would stop over at the cape of good hope — todays Table Bay Harbour Cape Town to replenish their boats with fresh produce. Farms like Quoin Rock would rush produce to the harbour and from the late 1660’s wines from South Africa started forming part of the goods delivered to the port. Now just over 350 years later South African wines are still exported from Table Bay harbour. While wine production is the main activity at Quoin Rock in Stellenbosch the Agulhas farm Boskloof focuses on conservation. Bontebok springbok eland and zebra have been reintroduced to this area.