Mooiplaas Wine Estate Chenin Blanc Bush Vines Roos Family Vineyards Stellenbosch 2023 750 ML

Mooiplaas Wine Estate Bush Vines Chenin Blanc is a lovely pale straw colour. Nose decidedly tropical with quince, golden delicious apples, litchi, mango, and summer melon flavours. Good weight and balance on the palate, layered with minerality on the finish. The wonderful mouthfeel that typifies ripe Chenin Blanc has already started to develop and will increase in the next 12 – 24 months. The much-needed rainfall during winter and a rather cool summer provided ideal conditions for growth and ripening. An outstanding vintage for white grapes, no heat waves and low night temperatures together with a cool summer. Juice cleaned by settling, 50% of the volume was allowed to ferment spontaneously with wild yeast. After fermentation the wine was blended. Extended lees contact allowed after fermentation.
Mooiplaas Wine Estate and Private Nature Reserve is situated among the majestic mountains and fertile valleys in the Stellenbosch Winelands, approximately 40km east of Cape Town. Mooiplaas is a historic and traditional working wine farm. The vineyards lie on steep slopes of ancient mineral-rich soils in the Bottelary Hills of Stellenbosch, overlooking Cape Town. Here Tielman and Louis Roos produce a range of environmentally friendly wines rooted in tradition and artisan techniques that make the most of the unique terroir.