The Vineyard Collection Cap Classique Chenin Blanc

Serve well-chilled as an aperitif or pair it with oysters and fresh seafood dishes.

Perdeberg Group is one of South Africa’s leading wine producers and exporters with its head office situated in the shadows of the Paardeberg Mountain in Paarl. Established in 1941, the company adopted its name from the scores of Mountain Zebra that once roamed the mountain foothills, mistaken for wild horses by the Dutch. With an exceptional portfolio of superior quality brands, Perdeberg markets award-winning wines to a selection of top wine markets around the globe. These include The Dryland Collection, The Vineyard Collection, The Classic Range and Soft Smooth Range. Through our extensive supply network of grapes and wines, we offer customers a complete solution to meet the ever-changing needs of their consumers. The unique composition of our vineyards significantly contributes to the quality of our wines. These dry land bush vines create exceptional fruit concentration than vines subjected to unnatural vineyard practices. The structure and complexity of these smaller berries bring intense colour, added body and bold flavours. Perdeberg Cellar's unique composition of vineyards significantly contributes to the quality of our wines. Our vineyards cover more than 2500 ha and are mostly un-irrigated and un-trellised, yielding a very low long-term average of 8 tons per hectare. Under these conditions, Mother Nature produces her best fruit with intense colour, added body, and passionate flavours. These vines allow our winemaking team to produce an internationally well-awarded wine arrangement, enjoyed around the world.

The 2021 vintage was later than usual, with grapes picked two weeks later due to a cool growing season with low disease risk. The cooler-than-normal harvest period, with no heat waves and some rainy days, resulted in high-quality wines with good ageing potential.

The wine was then aged for at least eighteen months on the lees in the bottle. The wine was disgorged and then corked.

Whole bunches were pressed with no skin contact, and only the best free-run juice was selected. The wine was then settled overnight, and then the clean juice was fermented in stainless steel tanks. The juice was settled for twelve hours, and clear juice was transferred to the fermentation tank for the first alcoholic fermentation. After the fermentation, the wine was stored on the lees for six months without any sulphur addition. The wine was then stabilised and filtered before the addition of sugar and yeast for the second fermentation. The second alcoholic fermentation was done in the bottle under a crown cap.