Stellenrust Clement de Lure MCC Rose Brut NV

Tasting Notes
Analysis & Info

A wine for any celebratory occasion. It pairs excellently with fresh oysters with a cranberry dressing or spicy seafood dishes and proves to be great company for fresh garden salads with a coriander twist.

Technical Analysis
alc	11.5
rs	5.2
pH	3.1
ta	8.1
Wine Information
Accolades	World Sparkling Wine Challenge 2015 - 1st Place
Brand Group	Stellenrust Super Premium Range
Other
Winemaker	Tertius Boshoff
Variety	Chenin Blanc
Blend Percentage	Chenin Blanc, Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc
Food Suggestion	It pairs excellently with fresh oysters with a cranberry dressing or spicy seafood dishes and proves to be great company for fresh garden salads with a coriander twist.
Ageing
Cellar	Bunches are pressed whole over a 3 hour pressing cycle. State of the art machinery allows slow drainage of only the purest choice from the grapes. The Chenin Blanc is tank fermented with wild yeasts and kept on the fermentation lees for 7 months. The Chardonnay and Cabernet Franc are also wild yeast fermented but in 3rd and 4th fill French oak barrels. After 7 months lees ageing, it is blended with the Chenin Blanc, fined and made bottle ready. A special yeast culture is grown over a 1 week period and the wine re-inoculated with residual sugar when bottled with a crown cap closure. Second fermentation in the bottle is securely monitored and pressure gauged over a 4 week period. After the fermentation has been completed, the wine is matured at least 18 months in the bottle on fermentation lees with frequent riddling, prior to disgorging and corking. The sparkling is finished off with cork and allowed another 3 months to settle prior to release. Time spent on lees: 8 months after first fermentation in tanks and barrels and 18 months after second fermentation in the bottle.
Harvest	Chenin Blanc and Chardonnay are picked at 18° Balling and Cabernet Franc a bit riper at 20° Balling to avoid excessive green and leafy notes in the wine and to allow a bigger contribution of riper red cherries and berries, yet retaining freshness and purity.
Vineyard	32 year old Chenin Blanc vineyards (bush vine), decomposed granite, Bottelary. 10 year old Chardonnay vineyards (trellised), sandy soil, Bottelary. 16 year old Cabernet Franc vineyards (trellised), decomposed granite, Helderberg. Grapes are selected from specially grown vineyards in the Bottelary and Helderberg wards of Stellenbosch: Cabernet Franc from the Helderberg and Chenin Blanc and Chardonnay from the cooler Bottelary Hills.
Style
style	Off Dry
type	Cap_Classique
Type
Kosher	0
Organic	0
Vegetarian	0
Wooded	0
Pack
Closure	Cork
Pack Size	750ml
Pack Type	Bottle