📅 Monday, 20 November, 2023
By wine.co.za
Backed by almost half a century of Chardonnay making between Robertson and Bonnievale, the custodians of different Chardonnay making family estates aligned themselves to launch Calcrete, a category of minerally unwooded Chardonnay that defines their region.
Weltevrede Calcrete, De Wetshof Calcrete, Rietvallei Calcrete, Excelsior Calcrete, Van Loveren Calcrete. And more will follow from future vintages. Some will mention Chardonnay with Calcrete on the label, others will merely state Calcrete, confident that in time everyone will know Calcrete is unwooded Chardonnay, but not just any unwooded Chardonnay.
The wine regions of the Old-World countries are known for their singular focus, where regions are often defined by one particular wine style. Consider an area like Chablis in northern Burgundy, France, where Chablis wines made of Chardonnay are world famous for their elegant minerality and food friendliness, always subtle, never heavy.
Their terroir is key to the resulting wine. Over the past 40 years the Robertson wine area in South Africa has also emerged with increased prominence of lime-likeness and minerality in their unwooded Chardonnays. Over the years winemaking families of the estates along the roads between Bonnievale and Robertson have managed to offer unwooded Chardonnays with clarity and minerality, so much so that it defines the region.
Geologically, Calcrete refers to the white deposits of limestone in soils. From this terroir the Calcrete wines draw their unique character, their purity, their sophistication and minerality. Chardonnay wines labeled as Calcrete are specially selected from the Bonnievale-Robertson region. They are a true expression of local minerality, the forté of this region. Calcrete can’t be produced anywhere else but within its boundaries and only by approved wine estates who have proved over decades to have presented Calcrete-like Chardonnay in its stylistic singularity.
Wines labeled as Calcrete represent Chardonnay in its purest form and express terroir with great clarity and minerality. Call it a mouth-watering tension, call it flintiness, steeliness or elegance, a cool sensation on the pallet, the taste of gunflint. Minerality is the descriptive word to express that tight purity and irresistible invitation offered by Calcrete Chardonnay to take another sip, to want a little more.
Wines labeled as Calcrete represent Chardonnay in its purest form and express terroir with great clarity and minerality. Call it a mouth-watering tension, call it flintiness, steeliness or elegance, a cool sensation on the pallet, the taste of gunflint. Minerality is the descriptive word to express that tight purity and irresistible invitation offered by Calcrete Chardonnay to take another sip, to want a little more.
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