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Lycaon Old Vine Chenin Blanc 2023
W.O. WELLINGTON
CULTIVARS
Chenin Blanc 100%
ANALYSIS
Alc:13.5 % | R.S: 1.7 g/l | T.A: 5.9 g/l | Ph: 3.38
TASTING NOTES
An elegant and rich wine, with aromas of citrus, and ripe peaches. On the palate crisp acidity is balanced by a creamy and slightly waxy texture, with layers of fruit, and straw providing depth and intensity. The wine has a long, soft and rewarding finish
AGEING POTENTIAL
This wine will develop in bottles over the coming 5 years, gaining complexity as it develops in bottle.
THE VINEYARD
Grapes were harvested from a single vineyard of unirrigated 48- year-old vines in the “horse shoe” just above the town of Wellington. The vines grow in Glen rosa soil, a well-drained decomposed granite soil, yellow brown in colour. The vineyard is a certified heritage vineyard under South Africa’s Old Vine Project, designed to preserve the surviving old vineyards of South Africa.
WINEMAKING
The fruit was destemmed, pressed and settled before being fermented in 550l barrels and amphora with natural wild yeast. The press was very gentle, yielding only around 550 litres of juice per tonne for optimum quality.
Total production 2450 bottles.
THE STORY OF THIS WINE
Lycaon comes from the scientific name for an African wild dog, Lycaon Pictus, and is derived from the Greek word Lycos for a wolf. The label illustration is from a page in an 18th century book on hunting in Southern Africa, a time when painted wolves were
common throughout the region.
Painted Wolf Wines supports the conservation of the highly endangered painted wolf (African wild dog) and the protection of the diminishing wild spaces of Africa, through its donations to the EWT – www.ewt.org.za and Tusk – www.tusk.org.
