Fairview La Beryl Blanc 2006

2007 Decanter World Wine Awards – Commended
2007 International Wine Challenge – Silver Medal
2007 Concours Mondial de Bruxelles – Silver Medal
Colour: Warm golden straw.
Aroma: Ripe creamy peach and apricot aromas. Vanilla humbugs with subtle white flower and wild honey hints.
Palate: Good balance and a full mouth-feel. Long finish, with intense ripe stone fruit flavours.

Winemaker's Notes:
This is a very special wine with enormous poise and concentration. The wine has an abnormally high volatile acidity of 1.16g/l. For a normal dry white or red wine this would be totally unacceptable, but a higher level is discernable necessary in a straw wine, and adds another level of complexity.


variety : Chenin Blanc [ 50% Chenin Blanc, 50% Semillon ]
winery : Fairview Wines
winemaker : Anthony de Jager
wine of origin : Coastal
analysis : alc : 11.68 % vol  rs : 194.7 g/l  pH : 3.36  ta : 9.3 g/l  
type : White  style : Sweet   wooded
pack : Bottle  closure : Cork  

AWARDS
2006 Vintage
2007 Decanter World Wine Awards – Commended
2007 International Wine Challenge – Silver Medal
2007 Concours Mondial de Bruxelles – Silver Medal

2005 Vintage
2006 International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) - Silver
2006 Concours Mondial de Bruxelles – Great Gold Medal
John Platter Wine Guide - 4½ stars

ageing : The wine drinks well right now and will age for many years.

about the harvest: Harvest Date: February 2006
Chenin Blanc and Semillon were harvested at 22° Balling. The harvesting was done extremely carefully so as not to damage any fruit. Picked into small lug boxes, and transported to a well ventilated shed to where they were carefully laid out on racks lined with straw to dry.

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