Chardonnay

4 Stars in Platter's SA Wine Guide (2010) Veritas Gold Medals for 2004 & 2005 vintages

HARTENBERG’S NEXT BIG THING AND THE MOST POPULAR VARIETY IN THE WORLD!

A History

It seems the folk of Hartenberg have always been an easy-going bunch. If you do things just the way they like. On Hartenberg Wine Estate, being unwilling to compromise must come with the territory. Both Cunraad Boin and Christoffel Esterhuizzen were known for it back in 1692. So was paulus Keiser in the 1700's. Eleanor Finlayson was famous for it in the 1940’s. And, goodness knows, our current winemaker is a stickler for standards - just ask any staff member. Curious, isn’t it, this recurring trait? Why do the custodians of Hartenberg all share this perfectionism? Perhaps it’s the magnitude of having this corner of heaven thrust into one’s care? Or knowing the effort required to realise the immense potential of the place? Perhaps fate simply knows how to pick the right man (or woman) for the job? We may never know. But we can all be grateful for it, if it means we get to drink wines of the calibre of the one featured on this page!

Fig 112: Paulus Keiser was a famous soldier and elephant hunter before he purchased Hartenberg in 1721.

Name:	Chardonnay
Vintage:	2008
Awards:	4 Stars – Platters Wine Guide 2007), RSA
Production:	41 109 bottles
Barrel Ageing:	11 months in 33 new, 22% second fill and 44% third fill "House Toast" French oak
Maturation:	To 5 years from vintage
Alcohol:	13.80% by volume
Residual Sugar:	2.6 g/l
Total Acid:	6.4 g/l
PH:	3.50
Food Matching Salmon & Leek Quiche or a smoked chicken salad
Tasting Note Hartenberg’s flagship white. creamy, complex, and bursting with aromas of citrus. Long lingering flavours with gentle oak finish.
Independent Tasting Note “marries creamy vanilla oak with brisk lemon aromas/flavours. hint of mint, savoury complexity on finish.” – Platter's SA Wine Guide 2010

Already famous for our world-beating Shiraz, it seems Chardonnay is Hartenberg’s next showstopper.

Having scored 4 Stars from John Platter, and Gold Medals at Veritas for both the 2004 & 2005 vintage, it’s easy to be bamboozled by all the hype.

But one sip of this 2007 Chardonnay confirms you don’t have to know anything about wine to know when you’re drinking the good stuff.

Made from five different clones, grapes were picked in the early morning by hand over nine days. Then they were crushed and immediately pressed, without having any skin contact. After being transferred to "House Toast" French oak barrels for fermentation, the wine was stirred twice monthly for the first six months, then monthly thereafter.

Our Chardonnay is always bottled in Summer, after filtering.

We love this wine. We hope you do too.

Delicious with seared tuna.

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