Mullineux Olerasay Chenin Blanc 375ml

Alcohol 8.0 % – RS 365 g/l – TA 11.4 g/l – pH 3.33

This beautifully sweet and incredibly rare wine is a fractional blend of the 2008 to 2023 vintages of our Straw Wine, is incredibly complex, with unstoppable length. With a perfume of sun-dried apricots and Fynbos, it has an incredible concentration and zesty acidity, making for a beautiful, balanced wine.

Vineyard Notes:The vineyards we chose to make this balanced, yet very sweet and incredibly special Straw Wine are naturally very high in acid, flavour and good physical structure. To achieve these qualities, the calibre of the old vine Chenin Blanc planted on the decomposed Granite based soils of the Paardeberg are fundamental.

Production Notes:By picking the grapes at normal ripeness and then drying them in the breezy outside conditions for the desiccation process, we are not just concentrating sugar and flavour, but also increasing the intense, zesty acidity that we feel is so important in making a balanced Straw Wine. After drying for several weeks, the grapes were crushed and pressed to 225L barrels where a long, slow natural fermentation took place. Each year the fermentation stops at a natural balance after 8 to 12 months.
A vintage Straw Wine is always bottled, however each year a few barrels are selected to go into a Solera system of barrel-aging. The fractionally-blended OLERASAY 4º comprises the 2008 to 2023 vintages.
Maturation:Aged in 225L French oak barrels in a solera dating back to 2008 and up to 2023.