2015 Seven Flags Chardonnay

Exotic aromas play with creamy melted lemon butter, herbs and citrus zest alongside layers of wet grey slate minerality. The palate has meringue elements alongside the lemon, and is well structured with excellent acidity and focus, as well as being playfully leesy and textured. It exudes grace and elegance.

The 2015 Seven Flags Chardonnay was picked between February 16 and March 4 at 6.6-tons per hectare, and matured in 25% new French oak. It has a sophisticated bouquet with quite intense aromas of citrus fruit, nutmeg and walnut, perhaps a little nod to Meursault there. The palate is vibrant and fresh on the entry with a saline entry, a keen thread of acidity, the complexity really surfacing towards the second half with subtle lemongrass veins lending tanginess that beckons you back for another sip. I have often claimed this to be one of South Africa's finest Chardonnays and this 2015 adds to their canon of world-class wines.