GlenWood, Grand Duc Noblesse 2023
Noblesse takes its name from ‘noble rot’, a winemaking process which accentuates sugar, and reduces water content in grapes, making them perfect for sweet wine production.
This wine is 100% Semillon, with citrus, nutty and honey notes on the nose. The palate is refreshingly sweet with tangy passion fruit and litchi flavours. Make sure to serve it well chilled.
A wine in this style is the result of painstaking attention to detail in the vineyard, and the cellar. Drink now or age for 15 years or more.
£26.50
Franschhoek
Semillon
Description
WINEMAKERS COMMENTS
This wine is golden straw in colour with citrus, nutty and honey notes on the nose. The palate is refreshingly sweet with tangy passion fruit and litchi flavours. Drink now or age for further intense complexity.
VITICULTURE
Vine age: 29 years
Density: 2857 vines per hectare
Normal vineyard yield: 8-10 tons per hectare
Soils are well-drained compromised lightly structured Clovelly and Avalon with no irrigation system.
VITIFICATION
An intensive, 4-stage, harvest selection in which only noble rot berries were selected containing sugar of between 34 and 36°B. Prior to pressing the berries went through another selection process to ensure that only 100% noble rot berries were pressed. Juice was settled and racked to small 225 Litre selected French oak barrels. Juice was barrel fermented and the fermentation naturally stopped
at 130 grams residual sugar per litre. The wine has spent 15 months in barrel before stabilisation and bottling.
ANALYSIS
Alcohol: 12.0%
Total Acidity: 6.9 g/l
Residual Sugar: 130.3 g/l
pH: 3.68
PRODUCTION
1900 x 375ml bottles
Additional information
| Grape | Semillon |
|---|---|
| Wine Farm | |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Alcohol | 12% |
| Origin | Franschhoek |
Try it with homemade apple crumble and vanilla ice cream, or mature Stilton cheese.
2 reviews for GlenWood, Grand Duc Noblesse 2023
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Double Gold (95 points) | Gilbert & Gaillard International 2024
“Golden straw. Grapey and citrussy on the honeyed nose. Sweet and tangy on the passion fruit and litchi palate with a waxy and oily character on the tart finish. Layered and delicious. Drink through 2040. “
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“Noblesse is a fine Franschhoek sweet wine from DP Burger and Natasha Pretorius. Deftly barrel fermented, it has intense flavours of peach and nectarine, an engaging interplay between acidity and 130 grams of residual sugar and a subtle volatile lift. 2025-28.”
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