Kleine Zalze Vineyard Selection Chardonnay 2024
- Kleine Zalze
- white wine - dry
- South Africa - Western Cape
- Chardonnay
- John Platter: 5 Stars / 95 Points
- Tim Atkin 2025: 91 Points
- Veritas Awards 2025: Silver
€12.45*
Available, delivery time: 1-3 days
Information about "Kleine Zalze Vineyard Selection Chardonnay 2024"
The Kleine Zalze Vineyard Selection Chardonnay captivates with a unique blend of ripe oak and vibrant freshness. Tempting aromas of blooming citrus flowers, crisp lime, and stone fruits caress the palate, enhanced by subtle hints of vanilla. This Chardonnay is marked by outstanding length and lasting minerality, paired with a refreshing and harmoniously balanced acidity. An elegant and complex wine, highlighted by a perfectly integrated oak influence, enhancing its finesse and appeal.
Post-harvest, the grapes underwent extended skin contact before careful pressing, utilizing only the free-run juice. After a 24-hour resting period, yeast was added, and fermentation took place in French oak barrels at controlled cool temperatures. The wine aged in barrels for an additional eight months, using 60% new oak and 40% used 400-liter barrels for maturation.
| Main grape varietal: | Chardonnay |
|---|---|
| Wine region: | Western Cape |
| acidity level: | low |
| bottle closure: | screw cap |
| bottle size [liter]: | 0,75 |
| country of origin: | South Africa |
| ratings: | John Platter 5 Sterne, Veritas Silber (85 - 89 Punkte), Tim Atkin 91/100, Winemag 91/100 |
| single varietal / blend: | mono varietal |
| vinification and maturation: | wooden barrel |
| vintage: | 2024 |
| wine style: | dry |
| wine type: | white wine |
1 review
20 September 2023 20:08
Feine Barriqueprägung
mittelgelbe klare Farbe, Feine frische Chardonnaynase mit feiner Barriqueprägung. Feiner saftiger dichter Chardonnay mit feiner Säure dazu und schöner Eleganz. Zeigt Würze und Fruchtaromen von Aprikose und Pfirsich. Barrique gut integriert, zeigt aber auch Gerbstoffe und Struktur. Mir fehlt noch ein Tick Säure dazu. Schmelz und Dichte ist vorhanden.
- John Platter: 5 Stars / 95 Points
- Tim Atkin 2025: 91 Points
- Veritas Awards 2025: Silver
- 2023 Vintage - John Platter: 4.5 Stars
- 2023 Vintage - Tim Atkin 2024: 91 Points
- 2023 Vintage - Decanter Awards 2024: 90 Points
- 2023 Vintage - Michelangelo Awards 2025: Gold
- 2023 Vintage - Winemagazine South Africa 2024: 91 Points
| Legal drinking age | 16 |
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| Distributor | Curry Premium Wines oHG, D-86938 Schondorf |
| Recommended dishes | Gegrillter Fisch, frische Meeresfrüchte |
| Grape varietals | Chardonnay |
| Serving temperature [°C] | 8-12 °C |
| Storable up to (at perfect conditions) | 2029 |
| Winemaker | RJ Botha |
| Ingredients | Trauben, Kohlendioxid, Konservierungsstoff (Sulfite), Stabilisator (Carboxymethylcellulose), Säureregulator (Weinsäure (L(+)-)), Antioxidationsmittel (Erythorbinsäure) |
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| Calories | 81 kcal / 337 kj |
| Carbs | 1.5 |
| Sugar | 0.4 |
| Nutrition allergens | Enthält Sulfite |
| Alcohol concentration [Vol%]: | 13.5 |
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| Residual sugar [g/l] | 3.5 |
| pH-value | 3.35 |
| Acid content [g/l] | 6.2 |