Viognier - Avondale Snow White

Soft creamy nose of peach, apricot and violets which is rounded off with subtle oak flavours. All these are beautifully carried through to the palate where the intense ripe fruit flavours combine in a fully round mouth feel, and a long structured finish.

Viticulturist: Johnathan Grieve
Vineyards: 7 year old vines.
Yield: 6 tons per hectare

Winemaking: The grapes, picked from organically grown trellised vines, were harvested by hand at 23 to 24 °B and cooled overnight to 5 ° Celsius. The next day the whole bunches were pressed, the juice settled overnight and fermented naturally with wild yeast in 600 liter second and third fill French oak barrels at between 16 and 18 ° Celsius. After fermentation the wine was stirred on lees for the first two months and then kept on the lees for another eight months, after which the wine was bottled unfiltered.

Ageing: Drink immediately or over the next three years.

Name: Bio-LOGIC and organic farming is essentially about using natural means to enrich the soil instead of synthetic fertilizer and employing natural predators and indigenous plans to repel pests.  Snow White or “Kapokbos” (Eriocephalus Africanus) is an aromatic wild rosemary bush, which we use as cover crop in the vineyards.

Analysis:
ALC         - 13 % vol 
R/Sugar   - 3.3 g/l
TA           - 5.5 g/l
pH           - 3.36