Mullineux Family Wines Old Vines White Blend 2017
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Blend: 65% Chenin Blanc, 13% Grenache Blanc, 10% Viognier, 10% Clairette Blanche, 2% Semillon Gris
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Chris and Andrea Mullineux search out old chenin blanc parcels for the backbone of this wine, adding small amounts of grenache blanc, clairette, viognier and semillon. The fruit from each parcel is whole-bunch pressed and barrel fermented with ambient yeasts, then left on the lees until it’s gone through malolactic. This 2017 is still so young you can feel some of that lactic acid in the wine’s creamy richness, a milky, toasty note that brings to mind Comté cheese. Give it air and it turns toward fresh cream, complete with notes of wildflowers and grasses, and the fruit comes up—pale peach and tangy tangerine. If you open this now, decant it before pouring with something rich—like raclette. Better, however, to give it a few years in the cellar to lengthen out.
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We are a small, highly focused Family winery based in the village of Riebeek Kasteel producing a select Family of hand-crafted wines from the granite and shale based terroirs of the Swartland Region of South Africa.
The Swartland is a beautiful and wild place. The landscape is a series of rolling hills, with a few significant outcrops of rock that form the Paardeberg, Riebeek Kasteel and Piketberg Mountains. It is not an easy place to establish vines, and is a region that has as much of an influence on the vineyards and people who farm there as the people have on the land itself. This brings to mind what film director David von Ancken has to say about the old American West: "The primal, universal power of the landscape strips away everything but the truth of men's souls." In much the same way, we feel the Swartland landscape bares the souls of grape vines, and in those varieties that can take the ruggedness, true personality of site is revealed.