Stellenrust Series Rare Mothership Chenin Blanc 2023
Stellenbosch WO
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From a family winery, twice winner of the World’s Best Chenin Trophy, this lavish and brilliant flagship white shows all the quality you’d expect from Stellenbosch's Stellenrust team. Wild yeasts, long lees ageing, it's creamy, ripe and citrusy.
£33.00 per bottle
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Wine Details
- White - Dry
South Africa- Mid Gold
- Chenin Blanc
- 10.125 Units
- Vegan
- 13.5% ABV
- 750 ml
- Vegetarian
- 01 January 2029
Flavour Profile
Tasting notes
Intense greengage, lemon, creamy, toasty richness. Huge length
Aroma
Freesias, apricot, peach kernel, bright citrus and a creamy note
Allergy information
Contains Sulphites
The Wine
If you’re looking for a ‘Grand Cru’ Chenin Blanc with luscious richness, this wine is the real deal. Established in 1928, Stellenrust is one of South Africa’s most successful family-owned wineries, with extensive vineyards. As with many Cape estates, Chenin is something of a speciality. But few estates lavish quite as much care as this wine has enjoyed. First, the fruit is hand harvested from half-century-old bush vines from their Bottelary vineyard. So quality and intensity are the finest. Then the juice is fermented with wild yeasts in oak barrels or special concrete egg fermenters. All this adds many layers of richness and complexity. A year on lees adds even more – the wine is "seriously a two-bottle wine". Ideal with duck or salmon.
If you’re looking for a ‘Grand Cru’ Chenin Blanc with luscious richness, this wi...
Really impressed by quality and concentration. It deserves Grand Cru status, well worth the price
5-Star Online Review
For the 2021 vintage
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