Ataraxia Under The Gavel Chardonnay 2018
Once again sourced from a single, cool, south-facing vineyard on The Skyfields, home to Ataraxia, located in the Hemel-en-Aarde outside the Atlantic coastal town of Hermanus. Painstaking fruit selection at harvest was followed by an extreme non-interventionist winemaking approach. Fermented entirely in small, tight-grain French oak barrels, custom ordered from selected Burgundian coopers, this wine was barrel aged for a further nine months before being bottled.
Tasting Notes: Inspired by the mantra “Terroir can be found by anybody who would care to look for it”; this wine is the purest expression of Ataraxia’s dirt (soil). Broad-shouldered, yet undeniably athletic.
Drink now until at least 2028
Winemaker: Kevin Grant
Price raised per case
- 6 x 750ml or equivalent
- Highest: R 6 500.00
- Lowest: R 4 200.00
- Average: R 5 059.00
Packaging
- Bottle Size 750ml
- Case Size: 6 x 750ml
- Cases Produced: 53
- Cases Auctioned 44
Analysis
- Alc: 13.65 vol%
- RS: 3.10 g/l
- TA: 7.60 g/l
- pH: 3.03
