The Stars Come Tumbling Home

Johan Kruger

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·         Sterhuis Zero Dosage Blanc de Blanc MCC (2009): Blue cheese & goats cheese, brioche, orange zest, grapefruit. No sulphur added, 36 months on lees, no added sugar, unwooded Chard base, 6 000 bottles/year (*)

·         Sterhuis “Unwooded” Chardonnay (2011): Fermented in 5 -7 year old oak barrels. Lime & orange, whole bunch, soft, sweet apricots, soft little hugs in your mouth, lurking butter, lanolin, lamb’s wool, easy drinking (**)

·         Sterhuis Chardonnay (2011): Buttered orange blossom, brioche, tennis biscuits, jasmine perfume, caramelized mango, peaceful & comforting, tastes like bottled sweetheart love, soft, sweet, sincere, love potion (****)

·         Callendar Peak Chardonnay (2009): Best reflection of terrior. Lime & mineral, lemon butter, soft & elegant, smokiness, burnt butter, brioche French toast with marmalade, home-made ice cream & caramel.

NOTES:

·         Burgundian Chardonnay = wine orgasm

·         “Why do people add sulphur to shit wines?  Coz it’s shit wine”

·         Sulphur = ingrown toenails

·         MCC’s – min 9 months on lees

·         Sparkling wine = “big, fat, offensive looking bubbles”

·         Full moon batonage

·         “Oh my God, that vineyard is pregnant – it wants to be a bubbly!”

·         Callendar Peak Chardonnay is made from vines on original French root stock vs American root stock as per the rest of the vines in SA (to combat phelox)

·         Okanea scandal: “Watergate of wine” – imported a cultivar that wasn’t Chardonnay, but close