Kleine Zalze Family Reserve Chenin Blanc 2020

White flowers and quince with hints of minerality leading to stone fruit flavours supported by well-integrated oak. Enjoy now or mature up to 15 years at optimum storage conditions.

The grapes were picked separately between 22 and 24°balling, reductively crushed and the juice was given 12 -18 hours skin contact prior to settling. After only 1 day settling, we racked the cloudy juice (120ntu) to tank where it got inoculated with selected wine yeast strain. The juice was then gravity fed into 400l French oak barrels and 1 x 500l Amphora for fermentation. We only used 2nd, 3rd and 4th fill barrels to protect the delicate Chenin Blanc fruit. The wine spent an extra 8 months in barrel and Amphora. This vintage is the first vintage we added Amphora fermented Chenin to blend but also 1 x 400l barrel (5%) of skin fermented Chenin Blanc. There was no fining or filtration before bottling.