Darling Cellars Reserve Quercus Gold Chardonnay 2021

An array of white pears, pineapple and lemon are the flavours on the nose that will follow through on the palate. A fruitful wine with a good mid palate, that ends off with a zesty lemon finish.

This makes this wine the perfect companion with a gourmet chicken salad or Indian curry dish.

Terroir: Deep, decomposed granite soils on the slopes of the Darling Hills, with a cooling effect in the warm afternoons from the Atlantic Ocean in close proximity.
Vineyard type: Bush Vine, no irrigation

Yield: 9t/ha
Balling at Harvest: 23°B

Destalk and crush, 15 days fermentation
Maturation: Kept on light lees for 3 months for fuller mouth feel and complexity. 100% of wine in wood for 3 months.

The recent demarcation of the Darling district has led to a focus at Darling Cellars on wines which are terroir and varietal specific. The cool and temperate West Coast climate lends itself to a different micro- and mesoclimate which, along with the different types of soil, lead to unique grapes, which we guide into even more unique wines. Having 99%of all vineyards dry land and almost the same percentage bush vine, this is as close as nature intended for grapes to be as one can get.

Darling Cellars Reserve is a wine range of straight varietals where the focus is on fruit driven, varietal true, value for money wines.