Paul Cluver Seven Flags Chardonnay Estate Wine Elgin Valley White Wine Dry South Africa (6 x 0.75l)

• STORY: In search of cool locations in South Africa, one heads southeast from Cape Town through the Hottentos-Holland Mountains and then arrives at Elgin. Driving up the key-shaped highlands, the climate and vegetation change: it's cool. Actually, Elgin is known for apples and peaches.

• AGEING: double selection of the grapes. Careful pressing, only free-flowing juice is fermented. The fermentation is stopped for some wines, usually the wines with the highest acid content. The lower sugar wine stays on the lees, giving the wine a creamy texture. Then the wines are married. 25% ferment in large 2500l oak barrels.

• AROMA: A very expressive nose of apricot and pineapple. Aromas of cardamom and orange blossom

• EVALUATION: Very rich and creamy taste on the palate, up to a wonderfully long-lasting finish.

• SERVING RECOMMENDATION: Perfect for dessert, but also wonderful as a dessert itself. Just as convincing with good cheese or oriental dishes, but also with fried shrimp with paprika and yoghurt dressing

People like Paul Cluver are rare. He is one of the architects of modern, democratic South Africa, the initiator of the BEE (Economic Empowerment of Blacks) in the wine sector and, above all, one of the most important innovators in Cape winegrowing in recent years - and as a career changer. When the trained neurosurgeon bottled his first wine in Elgin, 70 km southeast of Cape Town, in 1997, he was smiled at for the plan to grow wine here in the immediate vicinity of the cool Atlantic Ocean. But apparently he was the only one who recognized the potential of Elgin, later declared a wine cultural heritage by UNESCO, as a wine region. He deliberately planted grape varieties on the De Rust farm that were appropriate to the climate. So it wasn't long before the critical voices fell silent and the finesse and elegant Cluver wines were on everyone's lips. In the past two decades, the region has experienced an enormous boom. Today Paul Cluver's son of the same name, reinforced by his wife Alexandra, forms the spearhead of a series of winemakers who succeed perfectly in expressing the uniqueness of Elgins in their wines. Paul Cluver Jr. raves about “Seven Flags”. proud: "A vineyard and cask selection that brings together in one wine everything our family believes in when it comes to winemaking. This wine is the ultimate expression of our terroir.” It brings together the estate's best and oldest Pinot Noir plots, which are tended with particular attention. The result is an outstanding wine with excellent balance between body, structure, tannins and acidity and a great mineral finish.