Chardonnay

Full flavoured dishes such as lobster, tuna, chicken and pork.

Cool nights throughout the growing season with dry warm days resulted in healthy grapes with smaller berries with great intensity of flavour.

10 months in French oak barrels, 35% new, and the balance in 3rd/4th fill. Barrels stirred for several months. The majority of this bottling completed malolactic fermentation in barrel

De-stalked, crushed, pressed & settled in horizontal stainless steel tanks before the clear juice was fermented in 228 L French oak barrels.

In 1983 Gyles Webb and his wife's family purchased a run-down fruit farm at the top of the Helshoogte Pass in Stellenbosch where they established Thelema Mountain Vineyards. At a time when the South African wine scene was focused on quantity rather than quality Webb was a trailblazing pioneer on a mission to craft world-class wines. Construction began on the winery in 1987 and Thelema produced its first vintage in 1988. Situated on the slopes of the Simonsberg Thelema occupies mainly south-facing aspects that afford spectacular views of the Simonsberg Drankenstein and Jonkershoek mountains. Elevations ranging from 370 to 640 meters above sea-level make the 157-hectare estate one of the coolest and highest wine farms in Stellenbosch.