Posts Tagged ‘Paul de Wet’
Zandvliet Chardonnay – great flavours
Saturday, May 1st, 2010
Flying well below the radar, but so deserving of more limelight are the wines of Zandvliet.
Zandvliet Chardonnay 2009 is a real gem.
Beautiful straw gold in colour with whiffs of white flowers like frangipani and honeysuckle, the toasted hazelnuts and vanilla give evidence of the new 300 litre French oak barrels in which 30% of this wine was fermented and matured. Stirring up of the lees with a wooden rod or baton helps too add extra flavours and to build up the wonderful full palate and mouthfeel of this wine.
And we haven’t even got to the taste yet! And you will be enchanted.
Rich flavours of ripe white fleshed peaches, delicious citrus
Zandvliet Kalkveld Shiraz 2005
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Two things Paul and Dan de Wet do well is breed outstanding race horses - Pocket Power is one of their babies - and make simply great wine.
The Zandvliet Shiraz was first bottled over 35 years ago and is made from the Shiraz vineyards growing on the alluvial soils of the river which runs through the estate.
The grapes for the Kalkveld shiraz grow in a single vineyard on the southern slopes of a hill on the estate which is a conglomerate of pebbles, and clay, and of course limestone for which the region is famous. Limestone is good for horse breeding too.
The wine is a deep ruby colour with garnet
