Sadie Family Skurfberg 2021 is made from the Chenin Blanc/Steen (South African synonym) grape varietal. Grapes are picked in small 20kg picking crates and then placed in a cooling room to reduce the temperature. The cooling process is followed up by whole-bunch pressing. The process takes about three hours and during this time there is a margin of settling of the juice in the collecting tank. The juice is then transferred to two older foudres where it is left undisturbed until natural fermentation starts. The fermentation process can sometimes take up to 10 or more days to initiate and can last anything from 1 to 6 months, sometimes only finishing during the next spring, by which time the malolactic fermentation would often have come to completion as well. The wine is left in cask on the fermentation lees for 12 months and bottled from the lees. About 50ppm of sulphur is added 2 weeks prior to bottling and bottled directly from the cask. Bottled at 14%. (Bottle size 750ml)

Nose: This 2021 vintage of Skurfberg displays radiant bright stone fruit with fresh peach skin and Granny Smith apple and guava aromas.

Palate: Bright fruit on entry, with a similar profile as the nose. The wine leads with nectarines, peach and granny smith apples. Mid-palate has a bit more tropical guava expression.

Finish: Refreshing acidity with an elegant flinty mineral expression. It is again a great compact and viscus expression of Chenin Blanc and the mineral expression, power and depth are very much the same notions it has been over the past three vintages.

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