#402 Testalonga Mielie Green Chenin Blanc
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What is the Testalonga Mielie Range?
Historically, every single one of the Testalonga wines has been single vineyard bottling; almost always from very old vineyards and also always farmed according to organic principles. The Mielie range, however, casts the net a little broader, featuring wines that are blends of fruit from different vineyards. Both wines are cultiar wines (100% Chenin Blanc and 100% Grenache Noir), but involve more than one vineyard each time. The one thing that you can be sure of is that all wines will be 100% Wine of Origin Swartland.
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That said, it’s still worth watching the video, as thre are some pretty cool revelations about new additions to the Kottabos range.
That said, it’s still worth watching the video, as thre are some pretty cool revelations about new additions to the Kottabos range.
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TASTING NOTES
👃🏼 The nose is a mix of honeybush tea, lemon candy, and a hint of a very distinctive bergamot, which…if you’ve never smelt earl grey tea, is kinda at that intersection where citrus, and floral and herbal all meet.
👄 The palate manages to deliver a glorious chewy concentrated pithy overlap of nectarine fruit, oranges, and that bitter snap of ruby grapefruit. The chewy layered, spicy powdery texture is quite formiddable, and keeps you pondering the wine, long after it has left your mouth.
TECHNICAL SPECS
🔬The wine is a blend of three vineyards from the the Swartland. The koffieklip/granite soils near Malmesbury giving bush vines planted in 1981. Bush vines on the foothills of the Piketberg mountains in Moutons Hoek planted in 1961 on deep sandstone soils. The second vineyard planted in 1998 is close to Redelinghuys and 18km from the cold Atlantic ocean on the West Coast. The vineyard is also dry land farmed and gives a specific saltiness to the grapes. All organically and dry land farmed. The fruit was hand harvested and whole bunch pressed. The wine is a blend of three vineyards which were co fermented in a 5000L concrete tank for 6 months then racked off its gross lees and placed back into the concrete tank. No yeast (or other) inoculation or additives apart from a small amount of SO2 shortly before bottling were added
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