Villion Chardonnay 2020
This wine's an award winner...
Silver Medal
Decanter World Wine Awards 2021
Bronze Medal
International Wine & Spirit Competition
Villion Chardonnay 2020
This wine's an award winner...
Silver Medal
Decanter World Wine Awards 2021
Bronze Medal
International Wine & Spirit Competition
About the wine
An incredibly creamy traditional South African Chardonnay made the old-school way
- In times before whizzy tech and gigantic steel tanks, grape juice was left to ferment on its own accord, spontaneously bursting into action when the conditions were just right. It's a technique winemaker Kobie Viljoen is passionate about, and the old-school method has given this Chardonnay its smooth, creamy, rich almondy flavour.
- To geek-out further still, Kobie can clearly define where all the flavours in his mouth-watering Chardonnay come from. Only half of the wine was oaked, which gives it its pale straw, with flecks-of-gold appearance. It's bursting with citrus fruit and juicy apple flavours from the grapes, and finishes soft and smooth with hints of delicious cinnamon, caramel and vanilla from some time spent in fancy French oak barrels.
- Global lockdowns have hit the family-run winery hard, but thanks to Angel funding, they can continue to source premium grapes from all over Western Cape and craft their high-end wines.
Best before
Drink now to 2024
Serving advice
Open 30 minutes before drinking. Serve slightly chilled between 14-16°C
Food match
Due to the richer nature of an oaked Chardonnay it does go well with mild, buttery, or creamy dishes. On the seafood menu it pairs well with meaty fish (cod, yellow tail) and shellfish (crayfish, prawns, crab, scallops).
Contains sulphites
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South Africa
Western Cape
Chardonnay
Rich White
13.0% ABV
75cl
Wine profile
Meet the winemaker - Kobie & Faisal
- Kobie was head winemaker at South Africa’s ancient Spier winery, with the oldest wine cellar in the land. Faisal was the business brains that transformed Spier into the nation’s most medalled winery in the 1990s.
- They bought a vineyard right next door to Spier, and for years sold them their grapes, which went into Spier’s top-of-the-range boutique wines.
- Angel backing now means they use their own grapes to make a range of game-changing wines that have become cult classics at Naked. If you like trying new wines that make you go, ‘where has this been all my life?’, you’ll love Kobie & Faisal.
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