The 2023 Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction
Live Virtual Auction, 6 - 7 October 2023
Cape Winemakers Guild Friday, 6 October
About this Item
“It’s been a great journey for us as a family coming into the valley, starting to discover it. We always say that we are learning more and more from the vineyards that we farm. That’s basically the approach we take with our winemaking as well: it’s just to never stop learning.” - Gordon Newton Johnson
100% Chardonnay
• The best single vineyard site of Chardonnay on Newton Johnson, illustrating the clarity and energy obtained in our granite soils in a veritable cool and maritime climate.
• Striving for authenticity with a natural winemaking approach (no added yeast, enzymes, bentonite or SO2 until bottling).
• Only the best quality (first) juice fraction is used from the whole bunch press.
• The vineyard is approaching a mature age of 15 years.
• Made for ageing through juice oxidation.
Tasting Notes: Elaborate citrus fruit layers of yuzu and lime, juxtaposed with white flowers, baking spice, crushed stones and gunflint. The plush and compact texture is prolonged with vitality in the tapered finish.
Ready for drinking in 3 to 8 years.
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Case Size: 6 x 750 ml
Total Cases Produced: 108
Quantity of Cases for Auction: 60
Alc: 14.2 vol%
RS: 2.6 g/l
TA: 7.1 g/l
pH: 3.34
Notes
Friday, 06 October Session
Lot 33: 12 bottles
Lot 34: 12 bottles
Lot 35: 12 bottles
Lot 36: 24 bottles
Saturday, 07 October Session
Lot 217: 12 bottles
Lot 218: 12 bottles
Lot 219: 24 bottles
Lot 220: 24 bottles
Lot 221: 24 bottles
Lot 222: 24 bottles
Lot 223: 36 bottles
Lot 224: 36 bottles
Lot 225: 36 bottles
Lot 226: 36 bottles
Lot 227: 36 bottles
Provenance
Wine of Origin: Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley
Winemaker: Gordon Newton Johnson
- 2021
- Cape Winemakers Guild
- Chardonnay
- CWG
- Gordon Newton Johnson
- Hemel-en-Aarde
- Hermanus
- Newton Johnson
- Sandford
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