Diemersfontein The Clockmaker Chenin Blanc 2024

Description

The Clockmaker Chenin blanc vineyard was planted in 1986 by the current owner David Sonnenberg’s father, the block is situated on a South West facing slope on decomposed granite soils. The grapes are picked early morning and the bunches are destemmed, crushed and pumped straight to the press. Free run juice is kept separate and cold settled for 3 days before being racked to to 400L French oak barrels of which 25% is new oak. Fermentation takes place in barrel over a 2 week period. Post fermentation batonnage is done once a week for 2 months to create a fuller and rounder mouth feel. The wine then spends a further 12 months on its lees undisturbed before being racked, filtered, stabilised and bottled.