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Storm Ridge Chardonnay 2023
R770.00
Ridge Chardonnay hails from a cool, eastern slope on the Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge with low-vigour, stony, clay-rich Bokkeveld shale soil.
“One of the coolest years on record, leading up to harvest. Let’s not forget the heavy rain in March causing much damage in the Valley. Fortunately, Storm managed to finish harvesting in the first week of March, ensuring fantastic fruit quality in the cellar. The result is a vibrant vintage, with energy, texture and fantastic fresh natural acidity and low pH, ensuring the building blocks for extended ageing in bottle.” – Corlien’s notes
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Description
After 12 vintages in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley – ‘Heaven-and-Earth’ in Afrikaans – working intimately with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, Hannes Storm discovered two tiny parcels of land with particularly exceptional terroirs. The two vineyards, one in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley and the other in the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, were planted in 2008 to Pinot Noir. Storm’s maiden vintage saw the light in 2012, and after spending 18 months in bottle, the wines were released in August 2014.
In 2015, Storm Wines brought two new additions to the family by producing their Ridge Pinot Noir and Vrede Chardonnay. Ridge Chardonnay, came on board in 2019. Storm Wines is the only producer that crafts single vineyard Pinot Noirs from each of the three appellations in the Hemel-en-Aarde.
Today Hannes and Nathalia Storm strive to steer the purest characteristics of each vineyard site
towards bottle and cork. Small production, careful viticulture, minimal intervention in the cellar and a
constant nod to the Old World present the wines with distinctive personality and character.
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