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Brookdale Estate Sixteen White Field Blend

Brookdale Estate Sixteen White Field Blend

R425

Per Bottle

At Brookdale Estate, we seek to explore our terroir not only with a site-specific approach, but also a vintage-specific one. The Brookdale Sixteen Field Blend exemplifies this mission. Tim Rudd is fascinated with the art of true field blends where grapes are ‘blended’ in the ‘field’, rather than grown and vinified separately before blending. In South Africa, field blends are typically different varieties grown in the same vineyard block, but kept separate in rows.

That’s not how we did it…

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WHITE FIELD BLEND

The Sixteen is comprised of 16 varietals, interplanted as bush vines without rhyme or reason. We wanted to explore the naturally occurring microclimates and profile of a wine that is a true South African field blend, as nature might have intended if she were a winemaker.

By doing so, we have recaptured the lost art of field blend winemaking. A wine of character, intrigue, and incredible flavour, this wine is a perfect evolution for the Brookdale Estate Wine Range.

WHITE FIELD BLEND

The Sixteen is comprised of 16 varietals, interplanted as bush vines without rhyme or reason. We wanted to explore the naturally occurring microclimates and profile of a wine that is a true South African field blend, as nature might have intended if she were a winemaker.

By doing so, we have recaptured the lost art of field blend winemaking. A wine of character, intrigue, and incredible flavour, this wine is a perfect evolution for the Brookdale Estate Wine Range.

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THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS

What customers & critics are saying

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“Kiara Scott Farmer’s stylish blend combines fourteen white Mediterranean varieties with Chardonnay and Chenin Blanc. Fermented and aged in clay amphoras and concrete eggs, it has aromas of honeysuckle and wild herbs and a palate of peach, pear and citrus supported by palate-cleansing acidity.”

Tim Atkin MW

93 Points

2024 93

TASTING NOTES

Kaleidoscopic burst of lifted, diaphanous florals; jasmine, orange blossom, sun-drenched hay. Complex yet so fresh; green apples flow in, white pear, simmering in light. There’s wet stone, a granite dusting, leading to a palate sculpted by an electric current of acidity. Stone fruit coalesces in this energetic structure, peaches and cream, winter melon and lime drops. Tangy and long, quinine and pink grapefruit follow the salt trail to the finish.

WINEMAKING

A celebration of the lost art of field-blend winemaking; 16 white varietals were inter-planted as bush vines on decomposed shale and granite. The grapes were picked at three different stages due to the variability of the grapes. The fruit was pre-cooled and whole-bunch pressed before spontaneous fermentation and 100% malolactic fermentation. The wine was fermented and aged in concrete eggs and clay amphorae for one year on the lees prior to bottling and then spent a further four months in bottle before release.

Technical analysis

ALCOHOL

13 % Vol

TOTAL ACIDITY

5.6 g/l

pH

3.49

RESIDUAL SUGAR

1.3 g/l

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