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The label notes inform us
that grapes from which this Chardonnay is made are grown in the beautiful Breede
River Valley in the Robertson region of South Africa. They tell us that Danie
de Wet is a pioneer of Chardonnay in South Africa and uses traditional wine-making
techniques combined with modern technology, to create a wine with rich yet elegant
tropical fruit flavours.
From
a geological point of view, the Breede River is bordered by Silurian sandstone
ridges. The older terraces in the wine-growing areas tend to be the reddish-brown,
calcareous, gravelly soils on the hills, with still higher weathered shale being
used more and more. Other vines grow on alluvium along river banks. The grapes
of Limestone Hill are grown high on the slopes of those calcareous hills. |
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