Rustenberg Five Soldiers Chardonnay 2020

Wine awards:

John Platter: 4.5 stars / 92 points
Tim Atkin 2022: 93 points
Decanter World Wine Awards 2022: Gold

Wine awards of previous vintages :

Jahrgang 2019 - John Platter: 5 Sterne

An immensely complex and perfectly wooded Chardonnay with stunning aromatics and fine minerality

€55.00 *

Content: 0,75 Liter (€73.33 * / 1 Liter)

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Order number: 401656-20
EAN: 6002251000116

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The Rustenberg Five Soldiers Chardonnay indulges with stunning aromatics of ripe citrus, melon and peach, combined with a lovely minerality and superbly balanced wood. An immensely complex Chardonnay with a lingering and creamy finish and an excellent backbone of balanced acidity. The Five Soldiers vineyard is named after five tall pine trees known as "Five Soldiers" that tower over this site. Carefully selected Chardonnay grapes from this vineyard are hand-picked for this special wine and then refined just royally in the cellar. The final product is a very complex, full-bodied wine, yet approachable in its youth. Careful aging will reveal the depth of the wine's complexity and reward patience. This text has been automatically translated.

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The Rustenberg Five Soldiers Chardonnay indulges with stunning aromatics of ripe citrus, melon and peach, combined with a lovely minerality and superbly balanced wood. An immensely complex Chardonnay with a lingering and creamy finish and an excellent backbone of balanced acidity.

The Five Soldiers vineyard is named after five tall pine trees known as "Five Soldiers" that tower over this site. Carefully selected Chardonnay grapes from this vineyard are hand-picked for this special wine and then refined just royally in the cellar. The final product is a very complex, full-bodied wine, yet approachable in its youth. Careful aging will reveal the depth of the wine's complexity and reward patience.

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Treatment in the cellar

The hand-picked grapes were whole bunch pressed on arrival at the winery and fermented spontaneously in French oak barrels of 300 liters each. Spontaneous in this context means that fermentation was initiated exclusively by wild yeast naturally occurring on the fruit and in the environment. No commercial yeasts were added to this process. Once fermentation was complete, the wine was aged on its lees for 15 months in a combination of 70% new wood and 30% second growth wood.

Product information
wine type:	White wine
vintage:	2020
country:	South Africa
region:	Stellenbosch
winemaker:	Murray Barlow, Craig Christians
quality level:	Estate Wine
alcohol [Vol%]:	Decanter Gold (95 - 97 Punkte), John Platter 4.5 Sterne, Tim Atkin 93/100
treatment in the cellar:	wooden barrel
character:	dry
grape variety:	Chardonnay
leading grape variety:	Chardonnay
mono varietal / blend:	mono varietal
Alcohol [Vol%]:	13.5
acid [g/l]:	5.4
acidity levels:	low
pH-value:	3.53
residual sugar [g/l]:	2.3
Packaging:	Bottle
bottle closure:	cork
bottlesize [Liter]:	0,75
Aging potential:	2030
Importer:	Curry Premium Wines oHG, D-86938 Schondorf
age restrictions:	from 16 years