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Stellenrust 52 Barrel Fermented Chenin Blanc 2023
Original price was: £24.95.£21.95Current price is: £21.95. incl. VAT
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Pale gold. Layered aromas of quince, ripe pear, honeyed lemon and dried apricot over vanilla, toasted almond and a saline mineral lift. Full-bodied, textural and creamy from the lees, but held together by piercing Chenin acidity and a long, salted-honey finish. Excellent with roast chicken, fish pies, buttery seafood, aged goat’s cheese or Sunday roast pork.
2023 Vintage — Stellenbosch, South Africa
Stellenrust is one of the Cape’s largest family-owned estates, spread across Bottelary and Helderberg with a serious old-vine holding. The ‘Stellenrust 52’ bottling is their flagship Barrel Fermented Chenin Blanc — the number a nod to the 52-year-old bush vines the fruit comes from. Fermented and matured in French oak, it’s built as a benchmark Stellenbosch Chenin: textured, deep, but never heavy.
Hand-picked from single-vineyard old bush vines on decomposed granite soils, whole-bunch pressed, native-yeast fermented in French oak barrels (a portion new), then aged 9-10 months on the fine lees with regular bâtonnage.
